Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War

...5/23/1941, MC78_80.5542. [8] Edward Lodge Curran, “Franco: Who is he? What does he fight for?,” (Brooklyn: International Catholic Truth Society, 1937), 8 & 12. AC1990.116 F3. Archives Archives Select Month July 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 January 2024 November 2023 October 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023

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An “Un-American Invention”?: Catholics and the Issue of Prohibition

...akely, “Prohibition, the Cardinal and Billy Sunday,” Catholic Standard and Times, 02/08/1919, 8. [5] Catholic Standard and Times, 07/19/1919, 4; Blakely, “Prohibition,” Catholic Standard and Times, 02/08/1919, 8. [6] Newsom, “Some Kind of Religious Freedom,” 812. [7] “Temperance Union Urged to Fight Liquor Question,” Catholic Standard and Times, 10/2/1920, 3.

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Redpath’s Illustrated Weekly: a rare find

...stic and foreign news blurbs, sheet music, poems and serialized novels. At times the paper also included a Boys and Girls Department and a Ladies Department. Section devoted to women's fashion Changing financial circumstances and lack of interest in Ireland and social issues caused gradual changes in the newspaper’s format

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Nuclear War

...ning with negotiations in 1969, SALT resulted in an agreement to limit the number of ballistic missiles held by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Wolf, “Which Way?” December 15, 1953 Wolf questions whether mankind will chose the path that leads to peace or the one that leads to nuclear war.

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