Word: tawney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thither from Chicago went Dr. Tenerowicz in 1923, because he heard it was a "promising city" where thousands of Poles "needed guidance." Dr. Ten was a one-time breaker-boy from the coal mines of Punxsutawney, Pa. (pronounced Punk-soo-tawney). He had studied medicine at Loyola University, served in the Army Medical Corps. Eloquent and energetic, combining politics with doctoring like Michigan's late Royal S. Copeland, who became Senator from New York, Dr. Ten was only five years in becoming Hamtramck's mayor...
...order of things won. And having won, capitalism created a whole new culture in its own image, gradually absorbing even the Catholic Church, until today we find the Church fighting for its own inherent enemy, fighting the social doctrines of Karl Marx, "the last of the schoolmen," as Tawney puts it. The Catholic Church may be eternal, but its social philosophy is a part of the prevailing cultural organism and is as mortal as is that culture. TERTIUS...