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Called to order by the Association's president, Vincent de Paul Fitzpatrick of the Baltimore Catholic Review, the VOICE began thundering at the arch foe it attacks all year long in print: Communism. Conventioneers applauded when the Rev. Dr. George Johnson of the Catholic University of America told them that "Catholics recognize Communism for what it is ... a heresy. Whatever Communism creates ... is just so much machinery for eliminating God from human society!" They cheered again when Bishop John M. Gannon of Erie cried: ''Who knows, but that in the secrets of Divine Providence, the Spanish people...
Next order of business was to upbraid the secular press, which Catholic journals have long assured their readers is biased in favor of the Government side, for its handling of the Spanish civil war. President Fitzpatrick drew more cheers when he said: "We Catholic editors have been studying for years the conditions in Spain," and offered the services of the Association's members to set secular editors straight...
...Senator Wheeler the "option" was a "slick scheme" by which the Vans avoided having to get ICC's approval of C. & E. I.'s purchase until it was too late for ICC to act. On the stand, C. & O.'s old Chairman Herbert Fitzpatrick could only reply that it had been "necessary to operate that way at the time." Snorted the incensed Senator: "If the Interstate Commerce Commission lets the railroads get away with this kind of deal, we ought to have some new commissioners down there...
...Damascus and Jerusalem," which covers ancient ground in very old fashion. By now the public should be filled to the point where it suffers pain with travelogues which persist in presenting new lands from the same outlook. Although this does not commit the mistake of Fitpatrick productions, which Mr. Fitzpatrick always concludes with a mournful "We take a reluctant leave of the fair city of So and So," it clearly bares the need for something new in this kind of film entertainment. The other type of travelogue is "Wings Over the West," an interesting revelation of how Pan-American flies...
...spite of Senator Wheeler's sneers, Mr. Ball was not wholly abashed. Senator Wheeler brought out that Mr. Ball was Republican National Committeeman from Indiana, Mr. Fitzpatrick former Democratic National Committeeman from West Virginia...