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...Catholic has ever been elected President of the U. S. Only two Catholics have ever been appointed Chief Justice (Roger B. Taney and Edward D. White) and only one sits on the U. S. Supreme Court today (Pierce Butler). Only Catholic in Episcopalian Franklin Roosevelt's Cabinet is Postmaster General Farley. Only Catholic ever to be nominated for President by a major party was Alfred Emanuel Smith. Many a U. S. Catholic still believes that it was for his Catholicism alone, and not his Wetness and his Bowery accent, that Al Smith was politically crucified. Certainly the whispering campaign...
...Democratic appointees ruled the Court and it was the turn of Whig-Republicans to chafe and roar. When Democratic Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, onetime slave owner, handed down his Dred Scott decision preserving Western territories to slavery despite the will of Congress, a rising Republican named Abraham Lincoln went up & down the land denouncing it, demanding that the President and Congress reverse it, calling for appointment of new, right-thinking Justices. As President, Lincoln carried his feud to the point of ordering an Army fort commander to ignore a writ of habeas corpus issued by Chief Justice Taney...
...best rural correspondent it can find each year, Crowell Publishing Co.'s Country Home awards a money prize, a trip to Manhattan. Last year the Country Home award went to Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey for her writings in the Forsyth (Mo.) Taney County Republican (TIME, July 29, 1935). Last fortnight Crowell announced that this year's $200 prize had fallen to Mrs. Susan Frawley Eisele, whose farm home is nine miles from Blue Earth, Minn., in recognition of her column, With a Penny Pencil, which runs once a week in the Fairmont (Minn.) Sentinel...
Tear Gas. Flying a fast Lockheed from McKeesport, Pa. to Providence, R. I. to deliver a load of tear gas bombs to National Guardsmen in the textile strike (see p. 22), General Manager Theodore Taney of Central Airlines crashed in the Tuscarora Mountains, was found dead in his half-opened parachute...
Another removal occurred last week in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury when Henry Morgenthau Jr. banished a portrait of Albert Gallatin, famed fourth Secretary of the Treasury (1801-14) from above his desk and replaced it with a portrait of Roger B. Taney, second-rate Secretary of the Treasury for less than one year under President Jackson. Explained Mr. Morgenthau: "I wanted somebody not quite so stern...