Nuclear War

...rch 5, 1970 McGovern satirizes the United States’ priorities that spends billions on weapons of war while its citizens live in poverty. Knudsen, “Parasite,” 1971 Knudsen compares the arms race to a parasitic plant grown by hate that will drain the life from the planet. ← Cold War Communism →...

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Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection

...published by Packard’s old firm of Haskell and Allen. It is signed HSP, so Packard apparently did these types of drawings in Boston. They may have been a specialty of his. St. Mary's Church, Lawrence, Massachusetts Almost all of the church lithographs are 16” x 20” and are black and

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American Federation of Catholic Societies

...wing pains, indeed, at the 5th annual convention they complained about the number of societies not fully paying their dues which made it difficult to fund the work.[10] One of the committees at both the national and state level that had the most impact was the legislative committee. These committees

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Philadelphia’s First Bishop

...ayoffs or a decrease in clergy salary to combat the church's growing debt, page 1 Trustees' report, page 2 Egan vowed to be more assertive and tried to amicably resolve disputes, but his mild nature restricted his authority. Divisions within the Philadelphia church remained, and tensions grew among the clergy

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