Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Patrick Scanlan, managing editor of the Brooklyn Tablet, the collapse of the Spanish Loyalists last week (see p. 14) looked like a clean-cut Christian victory. Yet it was also a Fascist victory. Even as Roman Catholic editors wrote of it, General Franco, to them a "Christian Gentleman," set in motion a device which might well seriously embarrass his Christian followers. He signed a "cultural treaty" with Adolf Hitler, by which Spain and the Third Reich undertook to give "fiscal preference" to one another's cultural works. Banned in each state were to be all publications unfavorable to either...
...Brooklyn Tablet, official organ of the Roman Catholic diocese of Brooklyn, N. Y.. .is a monolithic weekly which is edited, as if with mallet & chisel, by Dr. Patrick Scanlan. Last week, for the third successive time, the Tablet gave its wide-eyed readers news about a plot which, if authenticated, would have made every front page in the land. Villain of the plot was Professor Thurman Wesley Arnold, Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. The plot itself: "starting a national religion and striving to control all others...
...last fortnight's Tablet Dr. Scanlan reported that Professor Arnold "urged an established church in the U. S. and sought to dictate what type of religion the churches should teach. It was a Hitler gesture." In the issue before that, Editor Scanlan had printed the evidence for his extraordinary belief-a speech by Thurman Arnold in which that able lawyer, using imagery drawn from his widely-quoted book. The Folklore of Capitalism, had said...
...According to Belgian Le Soir, the Pope wept while denouncing anti-Semitism-a fact which the Vatican would neither confirm nor deny. Lately the Brooklyn Tablet has taken the U. S. secular press to task for reporting the Holy Father's occasional tears, on the ground that such reports are meant to "confuse" U. S. readers...
...unveiling of a memorial tablet to Lionel de Jersey Harvard, descendant of John Harvard's brother who died during the Great War, Thomas H. Eliot '28, now running for Congress from the Ninth district, but then holder of the Lionel Harvard scholarship at Cambridge University, spoke briefly on his association with Lionel when he attended college here as an undergraduate...