Word: spellmanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small auditorium of Rome's Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology, New York's Cardinal Spellman stood last week before 200 assembled notables to dedicate an impressive gift. Everyone on hand knew the value of the 100,000 photographs and 500,000 duplicate catalogue cards that had come from the U.S. "It is," said one Vatican scholar, "just as if an encyclopedia had never existed before, and the first encyclopedia had just been issued." The gift the cardinal was presenting: a complete copy of Princeton's massive Index of Christian...
...glance. Where-ever complete copies of the index exist-at Princeton, and at Dumbarton Oaks-U.S. scholars have been able to do in one day research that would once have taken months. Now, with a third copy safely installed in Rome through funds raised by Cardinal Spellman, European scholars are at last able to do the same...
...Central Conference of American Rabbis have taken me to scores of communities. I cannot recall one where improved relations were reported. In practically all of them, tensions were on the rise." Some of the reasons, as Bernstein sees them: the intensified Catholic pro gram for parochial schools, Cardinal Spellman's controversy with Mrs. Roosevelt in which he denounced her for bigotry, Harry Truman's designation of General Clark as ambassador to the Vatican. The Clark appointment, says Bernstein, "was both, a cause of antagonism and a clear symptom of it. Catholics were not aware of the in tensity...
...young go-getters in Rochelle, Ill. (pop. 5,400), Frank and James Spellman were doing nicely buying, selling and trucking grain. Then they expanded, and bought a grain elevator. In 1949, they got a contract with the Agriculture Department's Commodity Credit Corp. to store 200,000 bu. of grain. The Spellmans, both in their early 303, began expanding faster. They added to their fleet of trucks, worked into real-estate deals, began shipping grain to Chicago by rail...
...Spellmans knew they were in trouble, owned up to the shortages and filed in bankruptcy. Now out on bail, Frank Spellman has a job as a truck mechanic; James is working for a construction company. CCC figures the- Spellmans owe it $316,959, including the fees paid them for storage...