Word: curran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freudian psychiatry a natural enemy of Roman Catholicism? The question was still warm last week, thanks to the set-to between Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen and Psychiatrist Frank J. Curran (TIME, July 28). Not likely to quench the flames of controversy was an article in the Catholic weekly Commonweal by Catholic Psychologist Dr. Harry McNeill, prewar teacher at Fordham University, now a clinical psychologist in the Veterans Administration. Gist of the article: the Church has much to learn from Freud-and vice versa. Excerpts...
Elsewhere labor seemed less inclined to follow the disastrous tactics of the telephone workers, and more inclined to follow the successful strategy of Phil Murray's steelworkers. Both the railroad trainmen's A. F. Whitney and the National Maritime Union's Joe Curran, who had hit the nation a one-two punch last year, were now breathing peaceful assurances...
...Curran was sure the five C.I.O. maritime unions would be able to complete negotiations before their contracts expire June 15. Whitney announced that the five operating brotherhoods, freed from the one-year moratorium on rules changes imposed by President Truman, would start all over again through the time-consuming procedures of the Railway Labor...
...Curran sat in his Manhattan office last week looking like a muscular mouse that had swallowed a rat. Joe had not actually swallowed the rat, but he had sent the Communists in his National Maritime Union scurrying back into their hole...
...looks just before he died, Thornton Hunt gave this testimony: "The outline of the features and face possesses firmness and hardness entirely inconsistent with a feminine character. . . ." Biographer Blunden finds it regrettable that no portrait of Shelley except the very young and rather girlish one by Amelia Curran has survived. To Blunden, Shelley exemplifies "the supreme capacity called genius...