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...almost offhand way, Eleanor Roosevelt put her head in the lion's mouth. In her column "My Day," she noted that Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, thought that Catholic schools should have a share in federal funds for education. Mrs. Roosevelt disagreed...
That probably did it. Francis Cardinal Spellman, speaking from his elevated position in the hierarchy of the U.S. Catholic Church, spread his wrath across a letter to her and forthwith made it public...
...Cardinal Spellman's remarks had been aimed not only at Mrs. Roosevelt-a bystander, if not exactly an innocent one-but at a bill introduced in the House of Representatives by North Carolina's stubbornly conservative Graham Barden, whom Spellman had recently characterized as a "new apostle of bigotry...
...Spellman had been talking about. These items were in other bills before either the House or the Senate, which specified that parochial school students would share equally...
...Spoken Word (Wed. 9 p.m.). Sponsored by the New York Public Library and produced by WNEW's Jack Grogan, who calls it a "literary disk-jockey show," the Spoken Word has brought its listeners the voices of such diverse personalities as Gandhi, Coolidge, Teddy Roosevelt, Cardinal Spellman, Bing Crosby (who gave a reading of The Star-Spangled Banner...