Priest and Rosary Calm Tension – Oral History Interview

...says, “Monsignor, you think you could say another rosary?” (laughter) http://www.pahrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Devlin-online-clip-2.wav Interviewer: Thank you for keeping the lid on that simmering violence in the neighborhood. Devlin: Yeah, we had, we developed a technique, with Monsignor Dowling and myself and a group, a particular cadre of priests, that you know, we

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Catabloging

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Dougherty’s Movie Boycott

...Letter to Priests of the Archdiocese,” 05/25/1934, MC78-.1934.05.25, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7868#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0. [2] Ibid. [3] Frederick Lane, The Decency Wars: The Campaign to Cleanse American Culture, (Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2006), 90. [4] Cardinal Dougherty, “Letter to Harry Warner,” 10/03/1934, MC 78- 81.184, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8106. [5] John McCreesh, “Letter to Cardinal Dougherty,” 01/9/1935, MC 7...

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Patrick Coad, patentee of the galvanic battery, and interesting miscellaneous items

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