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...offered a partnership in his brokerage firm, but turned it down to study for the priesthood (at 29). His business talents got him the job of assistant chancellor of the New York archdiocese; in 1941, he became auxiliary bishop and then coadjutor archbishop to his good friend Cardinal Spellman. In Los Angeles (with a Catholic population of 835,000), he has shown himself an excellent administrator and tireless builder of schools (82 new ones since his arrival...
...Elevated in 1946: Glennon of St. Louis (who died the next month), Mooney of Detroit, Stritch of Chicago, Spellman of New York...
...York World-Telegram and Sun recalled that the night before Truman's charge was read, New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman had introduced Eisenhower at the annual Al Smith dinner with these words: "The man of our generation to whom America entrusted the guardianship of its most precious possession-our liberties and our youth; a man known and respected throughout the country and throughout the world, a general who has a place among the alltime great men in American history...
...most significant speeches of his campaign, Dwight Eisenhower chose a forum without radio or television, gave a talk untouched by partisan politics. The occasion: the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial dinner, where he spoke at the invitation of New York's Cardinal Spellman. (Governor Stevenson, also invited, had to decline because of campaign schedules.) Eisenhower's subject: the U.S. in the world...
...record, has had no recourse except to launch attacks that are as false as they are terrible in their nature. They have charged me only lately-when they overstepped themselves-with being anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic ... I leave the answers to those two to my good friends, Cardinal Spellman, Rabbi Silver and Bernard Baruch (see above) . . . When I contemplate this series of completely false accusations against me, I get so angry I sort of choke...