Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good licks on anti-Catholic sentiment. So skilfully have they stimulated U. S. reaction against that year's campaign of whispering and Heffling that the atmosphere has intangibly but perceptibly changed. If Jim Farley should run for President next year, the inevitable whispering about the Pope-in-the-White-House would more likely help than hurt him. This is the outward, political aspect of an inner, social change which Catholicism underwent in the U. S. during the reign of Achille Ratti. The country is still Protestant, but amid the deepening class cleavages of today, the Roman Catholic Church...
...Labor Frances Perkins took the stand voluntarily to answer the impeachment charges brought against her by Republican Representative Thomas of New Jersey (TIME, Feb. 6). Failure to deport C. I. O.'s Harry Bridges as an alien Communist was her crime. Dressed in matronly black, with a large white bow across her bosom, Miss Perkins read to the House Judiciary Committee a lawyer-like statement explaining: "I am certainly in favor of the punishment or deportation of any one who engages in [treasonable] conduct. . . . I also wish to emphasize that I am not in accord with the principles...
Shortly after noon at the White House Franklin Roosevelt had received a two-line note. "Dear Mr. President: Pursuant to the act of March 1, 1937, I retire this day from regular active service on the bench. Cordially, Louis Dembitz Brandeis...
...three were just the kind of non-political appointments which made editorial applause obligatory. Disregarding complaints by Ohio's unpredictable Senator Vic Donahey the President chose, for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, distinguished Dean Herschel W. Arant of Ohio State University's Law School. Disregarding a White House call by Pennsylvania's loyal Senator Joe Guffey, the President chose for the Third Circuit Court able Philadelphia Lawyer Francis Biddle, former chairman of NLRB and counsel to the Congressional investigators of TVA. To the seat vacated by "Borrowing" Circuit Judge Martin T. Manton in New York...
Coach Ulen departed yesterday at noon, taking 16 tankmen with him. They are: Jim Curwen, Eric Cutler, Frannie Powers, Rusty Greenhood, Chet Sagenkahn, Dave Van Vort, Freddie Griffin, Ed Hewitt, Bob White, Art Bosworth, Craig Moore, Jack Waldron, Max Kraus, Ned Goldwasser, and Lonnie and Harley Stowell...