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Archbishop Hughes was awed by the sublimity of the Immaculate Conception, vowed to build a church to it, began construction the very next year. That Church of the Immaculate Conception was the first in the world dedicated to the new article of Catholic faith. It was to celebrate its 75th anniversary that Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, present Archbishop of New York, held solemn high mass there last week. Alfred Emanuel Smith, refreshed and jovial after the elections (see p. 16), attended the services with Mrs. Smith; also many another Tammany politician. Tammany Hall is less than a mile from...
...magnificent pageantry at Chicago (TIME, June 21, 1926). Last month the National Eucharistic Congress met grandly at Omaha. Last week the National Council of Catholic Women was at Denver. And Cardinal Hayes took train from Manhattan to California, to celebrate with Archbishop Hanna and 50,-ooo worshippers the 75th anniversary of San Francisco's St. Ignatius College. From San Francisco he was to go to Los Angeles to help John Joseph Cantwell, Bishop of Los Angeles & San Diego, dedicate Los Angeles' new cathedral...
Because July 4 is a holiday it seems unlikely that a business should celebrate its anniversary on that date. Yet this week in Chicago Crane Co. (valves, plumbing) celebrated its 75th anniversary on July 4.* The business was founded in 1855 by the late Richard Teller Crane. His original small frame building was completed July 3. Enthusiastic impatient, he would not rest on the holiday. Accordingly on July 4 he poured the first metal that went into a Crane Co. casting. Approximately 20,000 employes were last week celebrating that gesture...
...badly Senator Grundy had blundered soon became apparent, at Secretary Mellon's 75th birthday party in Pittsburgh. Mr. Lewis was present. He watched the Mellon leaders offer the governorship over his head to three men, saw each turn it down. Before he left the party, it was made entirely plain to him that he could expect no Mellon support...
...Scouts Lewis, Clark, Pike, Fremont explored it. By early pioneers it was called a "great desert entirely unfit for agriculture." Across it were laid the Oregon trail, the Mormon trail to Utah, the "Pony Express" route, the Union Pacific Railroad. The Diamond Jubilee celebrated not Nebraska's 75th year as a State, but its 75th as a political unit. In 1854, by the "Kansas-Nebraska Bill" it became a territory, was permitted to decide its slavery status by "squatter sovereignty" (vote of the settlers). It sent troops to the Union Army during the Civil War, in 1867 became...