Word: brentwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Catholics, Bishop George A. Beck, the Coadjutor of Brentwood, wrote that the Church of Rome could make no "concessions" because "there can be no such things as 'essential' or 'nonessential' articles of faith." In Rome, // Quotidiano, which often reflects Vatican views, agreed: "The strength of the Church is in fidelity to her doctrine . . . For her there cannot be practice without doctrine. Until non-Catholics grasp this ... no union is possible...
...Milton Stanford, a practicing Pantheist,* was first elected to the town council of Brentwood, Md. two years ago. He was sworn in with an oath of office, customary in Brentwood, which contained the phrase "I believe in God." He made no objection at the time but, after thinking it over later on, decided he could not again honestly swear to the statement...
Stanford was re-elected last June. When the town council of Brentwood refused to seat Stanford unless he took the full oath, including the clause on religion, he appealed to the Prince Georges County circuit court to order the council to seat him. Then he set about preparing his case for a hearing late this month. The court will be asked to decide whether the Maryland code is depriving Stanford of his constitutional rights under Amendment 14, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution, which protects basic civil rights of U.S. citizens from abridgment by any state...
Raft, the Ritz Brothers and sundry other notables. He bought a $75,000 stucco "bungalow" in Brentwood, shared a tailor with Lou Costello, dabbled in prizefighters and bought a piece of a supermarket chain. He was anxious to cooperate with...
...week's end his henchmen still prowled the halls, and flowers from admirers filled the room. For the first time in years, he was able to sleep when it was dark. Though his swank stucco house in Brentwood is ringed with a wire fence, equipped with electronic gadgets to detect intruders and bathed by floodlights which he can turn on from his car two blocks away, he seldom found it convenient to go home before dawn...