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...seasoned broadcaster himself, Pope Pius XII received Rome's radio announcers, admonished them sagely and piously: "You have a powerful voice which reaches the four corners of the world. Let us hope that voice will always speak words of truth, enlightenment and love." Refereeing his first labor fight (by court appointment as an arbitrator), Jack Dempsey, ex-heavyweight champion and Manhattan restaurateur, gave 27 office workers a 10% pay raise, a 40-hour week, time-and-a-half overtime, a modified closed shop...
...Rome bureau head, Salvatore Cortesi, as a joke gave the name of Pope Pius X to AP's treasurer as a business reference. His Holiness duly received a letter asking for information, told Cortesi he would give him a good character...
...missionary order, effective enough to breed enemies both inside and outside the Catholic Church. The Jesuits have been suppressed, at one time or another, in nearly every nation in which they have labored. Under political pressure from Spain, Portugal and France, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the order in 1773. Pius VII revived it in 1814. Under Franco and Petain the Jesuits have been freed from decrees aimed against them by Republican Spain and France. Last January they were given permission to enter Greece for the first time since the 17th Century. Only country which now formally bars them is Switzerland...
...road, has aroused few good-sized controversies in his radio career. He got into one aerial row in 1931, when, following a rule of The Literary Digest, then his sponsor, that no material already aired be included in his script, he failed to report the first broadcast of Pope Pius XI. Promptly he was swamped with messages accusing him of being anti-Catholic. Wrote a Mrs. McCaffery: "I spit on you, you Orangeman." Next day Thomas related a gentle human-interest story about how Monsignor (now Archbishop) Spellman of New York made a big impression on his folks in Massachusetts...
Only other American who has ever served in the Vatican's Secretariate of State is round-faced, able Most Rev. Francis Joseph Spellman, Archbishop of New York, who was attached to the Secretariate seven years-serving the last two under Cardinal Pacelli (now Pius XII), who was Secretary of State. Archbishop Spellman knows the Pope better than any other U. S. Catholic. Last week the Archbishop was luncheon host to Presidential Candidate Wendell Willkie. Said the delighted Mr. Willkie: "We had a stimulating and fine talk-I can't say anything more than that." Archbishop Spellman said nothing...