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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...
Richard Henry Tawney, famed Professor of Economics at the University of London, replied to Bishop McConnell by voicing an even more damaging criticism of contemporary Christianity: "I cannot share the complacency of those who talk about all the good things we have to offer backward peoples, when we cannot point out a single country in Europe where there is a real Christian civilization operating throughout its society. . . . We are trying the impossible in offering to save the individual, yet leaving the social structure pagan. ... It is not possible for men and women to accept one standard of social ethics...
...Professors Giovanni Gentile (ethics) of Italy; Etienne Gilson of the Sorbonne and Levy Bruhl of the French Institute; William D. Ross, J. A. Smith and Ferdinand C. Schiller of Oxford; John Burnet of St. Andrews. From the various philosophical departments of U. S. universities and colleges: Professor Guy A. Tawney of Cincinnati, President of the western branch of the American Philosophical Society; President John G. Hibben of Princeton; Professors Alexander Meiklejohn of Wisconsin, Edward S. Ames of Chicago, Ernest Albee of Cornell, Jared S. Moore of Western Reserve, Dickinson S. Miller of Smith, Rufus M. Jones of Haverford, Ourant Drake...
Richard Henry Tawney, economic henchman of Ramsay MacDonald, reviewed the British Labor movement: "We may be on the verge of another watershed, analogous to that of the Reform Bill, whence new streams will descend to carve English political scenery into new shapes...