Word: whalen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...participate in more than one fair in a single country within a ten-year period. B.I.E.'s blessing has already been bestowed upon Seattle's Century 21 Exposition, which opens in April, a ruling that automatically leaves New York without official representation from European governments. But Grover Whalen, in 1939, faced limited B.I.E. participation, still ended up with some handsome European pavilions. Says Moses: "We don't take this B.I.E. business very seriously. You won't find anybody around here worrying about...
...Were the YMCA to label itself the Young Men's Protestant Association, it might be more candid," wrote William J. Whalen, English professor at Indiana's Purdue University and student of Roman Catholic youth. "Forty years ago. the Holy Office warned Catholics against joining or supporting the YMCA, 'an organization which instills indifference and apostasy . . . ' Books on sex and marriage published by the Association Press, the Y's publishing arm, present views on masturbation, premarital intercourse, sterilization, divorce and birth control at obvious variance with Catholic principles." The books' willingness to discuss the pros...
Other foursquare Roman Catholic periodicals have warned the faithful against the Protestantism that the Y is supposed to offer along with its weight-reducing classes and such, but the days are long gone when the London-founded, 117-year-old Y was an evangelical organization that excluded what Whalen called "Romanists, Jews and infidels." Few Catholics have paid heed to theological lint-picking over what is now virtually a community organization. In Dallas, however, the Times-Herald last week front-paged the Sunday Visitor article and promptly blew up a storm. "Active membership in the Y is closed to Catholics...