Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champion, has joined the Committee of Catholics to Fight Anti-Semitism in order to help combat the persecution of “any of God’s children for racial or religious reasons,” it was announced today. Other prominent Catholics who have enlisted in the drive are Monsignor John A. Ryan and the Rev. Paul Hanley Furfey of Catholic University; Ward Hard, Washington correspondent, Emmet Lavery, playwright; Will Lissner and John Hinkle, newspapermen; Theodore Maynard, writer, and New York State Assemblyman Robert F. Wagner Jr.
Dr. Emmanuel Chapman, executive secretary of the committee and Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, said he “had no idea that the response from Catholic leaders, priests and laymen, would be so spontaneous and enthusiastic. The volume of mail, the stream of people willing to help has made it necessary to increase our office space considerably.” He also announced that an eight-page tabloid size newspaper would be on the streets in about a week. He expects the final circulation of the paper will reach the half-million mark.
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