Word: socializing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington cronies who knew Ed as Fred Vinson's righthand man in the Office of Economic Stabilization-and as a social lion, a self-appointed oracle and a Source Close to the White House-raised their eyebrows. Prichard would not talk about the case; he said only that he was innocent and wanted a speedy trial...
...wholeheartedly: "There is the issue in the case. You and the other defendants here say: 'This was all a perfectly innocent thing. We never advocated or taught . . . overthrow of the Government by force or violence at all. All we wanted to do was to bring about certain salutary social reforms, and to do it by a perfectly legitimate party . . . ' That, as I see it, goes right to the heart of the matter...
Such revolutionary tactics, the witnesses testified, were the subject of secret meetings, secret schools, gatherings at private apartments, were even discussed at such more or less open establishments as Manhattan's Jefferson School of Social Science...
When the strike started, Premier Maurice Duplessis' Quebec government called it illegal, told the men to go back to work and submit their demands to arbitration. At first the church kept silent, but a fortnight ago the Quebec Bishops' Sacerdotal Commission on Social Studies called on all Catholics, in the name of charity, to aid the strikers through Sunday church collections. Before the commission's report was published, three Duplessis ministers went to Ottawa and appealed to the Canadian Papal Delegate, Ildebrando Antoni-utti, to intervene. The answer they got was indicated at week...
McIntire would like to see his American Council taken seriously as the formal opposition to the Federal Council of Churches. His main charges against the Federal Council: 1) identifying Christianity with social reforms; 2) failing to accept every word of the Bible as literally true; 3) trying to make some sort of a deal with the Roman Catholic Church ("a system which enslaves and destroys the souls of mortal...