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...thousand other Oklahomans last week packed into Oklahoma City's Shrine Temple as delegates to the Democratic State convention. And they thought differently. With one unanimous whoop they acclaimed Governor Murray as their candidate for President, pledged him Oklahoma's 22 delegates to the Chicago Convention. Declared Governor Murray: "I stand in awe of the responsibility of the Presidency but I will undertake it. ... I am willing to shorten my life, perhaps lose it, in an effort to stem the powers now crushing the American people. . . . No man is fit to be President who hasn't worked...
Censorship. Last summer Columbia Broadcasting System announced it would no longer sell its time to preachers, would instead put on its own "Church of the Air." Many people believe that this change of policy was caused by the broadcasts of Rev. Charles E. Coughlin from the Shrine of the Little Flower of Jesus near Detroit. Father Coughlin organized his own chain, has since broadcast to a large audience. Last week The Christian Century, while calling Father Coughlin "erratic, illogical, cheaply sensational," expressed alarm at continued attempts to have him excluded from...
...Martin W. Littleton, dressed in Arab costume, gave a lecture in her Holy Land garden and shrine on Long Island. Said...
...competition was won by dapper little Joseph Henry Freedlander, an architect high in Tammany favor, who designed the bronze Fifth Avenue traffic towers removed two and a half years ago as traffic obstructions, and the equally expensive curbside traffic lights which took their place, hopes to build a shrine to Washington Irving opposite the new museum...
...past two weeks thousands of bare-footed Mexican Indians have made pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Virgin of Guadaloupe. This may seem of slight interest to those whose heritage is Protestant and whose interests are commercial, but in the village just outside the City of Mexico a pageant is being played in the spirit and with the trappings of the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages. If one would understand the power and the immense spiritual fascination of this great tradition then turn and follow this medieval pilgrimage to the gaudy and artificial church of Guadaloupe...