Word: aloysius
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Irish family, with both Roman Catholic and Protestant branches. But he had not heard of Matt Talbot. He made inquiries. To his amazement he discovered that Matt Talbot, a laborer, dead less than a year, had already acquired a reputation for almost unearthly piety. His biography by Sir Joseph Aloysius Glynn had been translated into a dozen languages, sold 60,000 copies. Known first to Dublin, then to the Catholic world, Matt Talbot's life was increasingly publicized until last week, when it became known in the U. S. that three weeks ago the first step was taken towards...
...second minority report came from the Council's two Roman Catholic members, Vice Rector Edward Aloysius Pace of the Catholic University of America and Rev. George Johnson, secretary of the National Catholic Educational Association. They fear a Federal department as bureaucratic, likely to assume too much power, to use its power for political propaganda. This conclusion w?as hailed last week by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, who said: "With the mad fanaticism, intolerance and bigotry exhibited in the presidential campaign of 1928 still in mind, one hesitates to think what would happen if a Secretary of Education...
...team of Philadelphia's lean 68-year-old Manager Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), the Athletics are handicapped by an injury to hardhitting Centre-fielder George William ("Mule") Haas. They still have a powerful offense, headed by Catcher Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, First-baseman James Emory ("Jimmy") Foxx, Outfielder Aloysius ("Al") Simmons, and the best pitching staff in either league. Best right-hander is George Livingston Earnshaw, Swarthmore graduate (1923). Best left-hander is Robert Moses Grove, who last week won his 30th victory of the season, an American League record. Pitcher Grove tied another American League record...
...bales with the proceeds of his gum sales in the South (TIME, April 13). Last week cotton hovered just above 6? per Ib., which meant that Gum Man Wrigley had so far sustained a 40% paper loss. But 6? cotton looked like a good investment to another Chicagoan. Edward Aloysius Cudahy Jr., president of Cudahy Packing Co. More cautious than Gum Man Wrigley, Meat Packer Cudahy announced that he would invest 10% of his company's Southern sales in cotton until $1,000,000 has thus been spent. At current prices a purchase of some 33,000 bales...
Died. Alfred Aloysius Smith (Trader Horn), 76, after a brief illness; at Whitestable, England...