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...When this apparent discourtesy to his ecclesiastical superiors became known in the archdioceses of Chicago and Philadelphia it was reported that in the future Father Coughlin would be denied permission to speak in either place. Nor would he be welcome in Boston, whose stout-hearted William Henry Cardinal O'Connell flayed Father Coughlin for his "demagogic talk" last year...
...repercussions. Only in England could laymen become as excited as they did last week over a second church quarrel, one which involved the English Church Union. A venerable body, long considered high church, the Union has been headed by 94-year-old Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax, a stout Anglo-Catholic who from 1863 to 1877 was Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales. Last week Viscount Halifax resigned his post largely because in its official publication the Church Union had made what he called a "vicious attack" on the Anglo-Catholic Congress...
...memoirs, now emerges from his study brandishing the first two volumes of a life of his great ancestor, John Churchill, original Duke of Marlborough. Churchills will applaud this sturdily belligerent defense of a family name they consider much maligned. Historians may be amused at Biographer Winston's irrepressibly stout language (he is a past master in the violent use of rubberstamp phrases) and defiant bias. U. S. readers will find Marlborough entertainingly Tory reading, will look forward to the volumes still to come...
...what he is today. Wallace would make a second-rate county agent if he knew a little more." Shenandoah's farmers paraded through the streets of the little country town, in solemn protest. At the fair grounds a dummy marked HENRY WALLACE was soundly spanked by three stout rustics with barrel staves...
...magnification is an old Spanish custom or perhaps resides in the nature of the country. California was an old land long before the Americans came, its early history already misty with crepuscular legend. The Journey of the Flame, a book of vigorous old man's talk, full of stout-hearted miracles and boasting, is like a suddenly-discovered window into that earlier age. Not only Californians but anyone wise or lucky enough to read it will delight in this altogether dignified but occasionally joyously incredible narrative...