Word: spellmanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week T.M.A.M.J. announced that it would take some ten days for a Manhattan accounting firm to tally the names on anti-censure petitions. Boys of grade-school age waved the Ten Million's petitions on New York sidewalks, and a Catholic parent wrote New York's Cardinal Spellman complaining that a nun in a Tuckahoe parochial school was soliciting signatures from fifth-grade pupils...
...CARDINAL SPELLMAN, leading Catholic prelate of North America, before the American Legion...
...Writer Dumas: "We started out to do a sort of adult Lone Ranger, but how much can you do with four guys with swords?" Lerner is investigating the comic possibilities and has not hesitated to seek advice in other fields. After a Manhattan conference with "someone in Cardinal Spellman's office," he decided not to use Cardinal de Richelieu as his main villain. The leading lady is British Actress Dawn Addams, who will be downgraded to duchess from her real-life position of Princess Massimo. Aramis has been changed from an ex-seminarian to a scholarly type; Porthos...
...upset at the spectacle of Cardinal Spellman and Senator McCarthy at a recent reception in New York that I began to question my lifelong connection and acceptance of the Roman Catholic religion . . . More power to you for giving so much space in your April 19 issue to the ringing denunciation of Rabblerouser McCarthy by Bishop Sheil...
...choice of McCarthy "to speak for Texans" at the state's hallowed San Jacinto Day celebration on April 21. In Manhattan this week, the Senator, recovering from laryngitis and a virus bug, got back in voice to describe the nation's Red peril to Francis Cardinal Spellman, who, with about 6,000 New York City cops, roundly applauded McCarthy at a communion breakfast. "You said it, Joe!" shouted the cops. "Keep giving it to them...