Word: aloysius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy signed the more nebulous portions of the Treaty they did not sign its more vital, binding clauses. More than making up for French silence, President Herbert Hoover sent the battleship Texas and four destroyers to blaze a 19-gun salute as the Leviathan neared Manhattan where Police Commissioner Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen greeted the delegates, sped them to Washington...
Soviet barbs were thus hurled at Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen because last week in Manhattan he announced that he will put down any violent celebration of May Day by Reds. "If there's going to be any Queen of the May in this town," snapped Mr. Whalen, "it will be me ? not Mr. William Z. Foster.* Law and order will be in command, not Red hooliganism...
Engaged. Rodman Wanamaker II, grandson of the late great John Wanamaker, aviation aid to Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen of New York; to Miss Alexandria Van Rensselaer Devereux, Philadelphia socialite...
...Puleston deserves more than his meager fame as the expert who exposed Alfred Aloysius ("Trader") Horn. Indignation at the gross ignorance of Congo Africa which he detected in the "Horn-books" caused Dr. Puleston (a prosperous Miami, Florida physician of 20 years residence) to exclaim to friends, "I can't believe this man was ever in the Congo...
...enclosure was a 38-page pamphlet by Father Edmund Aloysius Walsh. President of the Society, considered the leading Catholic authority on Russia today, one-time Director-General of the Papal Relief Mission to Russia (1921-22). Pages 28 to 30 were devoted to three Soviet cartoons, the first showing a workman climbing up to Heaven with his hammer to smash all the Gods, who appear frightened, and the third cartoon depicting the cemetery of the Gods after they have been knocked on the head and buried...