Word: spellmanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy's government published its annual honors list, elevated several prominent U.S. citizens to its five-year-old Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. Among them: New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, named to the order's highest rank, Knight of the Grand Cross; Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio, made a Commander. Last week Cardinal Spellman also got a U.S. accolade: the George Washington Carver Memorial Institute's Gold Award for 1955, for his "outstanding contribution to the betterment of race relations and human welfare...
...Francis Cardinal Spellman, Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, and the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, president of the National Council of Churches and stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., took to the air to bring Christmas good will to the armed forces. Cardinal Spellman laid the cornerstone of a new Catholic church in Tokyo and contributed $5,000 to help complete it before flying on to Korea for his fifth consecutive Christmas with the troops. Dr. Blake, traveling in the personal plane of Lieut. General Glenn O. Barcus of the Northeast Air Command, with the general...
Died. William Spellman, 97, onetime New England grocer, father of Francis Cardinal Spellman. Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York; in Abington, Mass...
Then the Guatemalan party flew to Manhattan, where, based at the Waldorf-Astoria, the visiting President attended a special birthday Mass (he turned 41 last week) at St. Patrick's Cathedral, breakfasted with Francis Cardinal Spellman, got showered with ticker tape on lower Broadway, received honorary degrees from Columbia and Fordham, hustled through a round of conferences with such U.S. notables as Ralph Bunche, James A. Farley and United Fruit President Kenneth Redmond. At week's end the visitors were off on a U.S. tour that would include a friendly talk with Ike in Denver and the Vanderbilt...
...mission, Stadta agreed that American men and women serving in Spain would also be forbidden to contract "mixed marriages" among themselves, unless the church agreed. Stadta's intention was that approval should be sought from the Roman Catholic Military Vicar of the U.S.-New York's Cardinal Spellman. But as reported from Madrid, his covenant seemed to say that the Spanish Catholic clergy could veto a marriage between a Protestant G.I. and a Catholic WAC or WAVE...