Higher, Faster, Stronger: The Olympics
...le sculls), 1928 Amsterdam, Gold Bernard “Benny” McLaughlin – Soccer, 1948 London Tyler Nase – Rowing (Mens four), 2008 Beijing Lisa Raymond – Tennis, 2008 Beijing, Gold Joseph Verdeur – Swimming (200m Breaststroke), 1948 London, Gold Archives Archives Select Month July 2024 May 2024 April 2024
Philadelphia’s First Bishop
...rgest city in North America. While under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of London, attempts were made to create a diocese with a resident bishop, but colonial priests discouraged this effort. Fearful of re-igniting fierce anti-Catholic sentiment, and concerned about the public duties required of a bishop, American colonial priests
Dougherty’s Movie Boycott
...heaters.[1] By doing so, Dougherty declared it sinful for any of the area’s 800,000 Catholics to enter a movie theater. In his letter to the priests of the Archdiocese, Dougherty called the motion picture theater “perhaps the greatest menace to faith and morals in America today.”[2] Dougherty and many others
Thomas Lloyd family papers, 1766-1867 (MC 45)
...ch was published in the Gazette of the United States. Lloyd emigrated from London shortly before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. During the war, he served as a soldier with the Maryland militia. Lloyd later moved to Philadelphia, where he gained notoriety as a skilled stenographer and teacher. He