Word: aloysius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sydney last week Australia's Prime Minister Joseph Aloysius Lyons, 59, contracted a chill in the damp autumn weather; two days later he lay dead of a heart attack. His death ended his administration at seven years, three months -just two weeks short of the record made by Prime Minister William Morris Hughes...
Omitted at first from the purple patches and golden numbers of New York World's Fair publicity was any mention of contemporary art. Outraged artists last year made a stink about this, persuaded Fair President Grover Aloysius Whalen to make room for an art exhibition under the seasoned direction of the Federal Art Project's Holger Cahill (TIME, April 25). Since then a modest, good-looking building has gone up and U. S. artists and museum directors have gone ahead with a national competition to select 800 works...
...steelmen and Mayor Angelo J. Rossi got behind Mr. Dixon's original idea, which was to celebrate completion of San Francisco's two great bridges. Chosen president of the fair corporation was Leland W. Cutler, who is no gardenia-fragrant showman like New York's Grover Aloysius Whalen,* yet is just as sound a financier and heady planner. An engineer named William Peyton Day made cruise after patient cruise taking soundings of the shoals north of Yerba Buena (Goat) Island, perfecting the idea of pumping up out of the Bay's black bottom a site...
...consecration of Atlanta, Ga.'s new, $350,000 Roman Catholic Co-Cathedral of Christ the King, erected on the site of the Ku Klux Klan's Imperial Palace, Most Rev. Gerald Patrick Aloysius O'Hara, Bishop of the Savannah-Atlanta diocese, invited the Klan's Imperial Wizard Hiram Wesley Evans...
...hatters, who consider twelve hats exactly the right number for the well-dressed man, picked the U. S.'s twelve best-hatted* men: Marshall Field III, Jack Dempsey, Herbert Bayard Swope, Adolphus Busch III, Grover Aloysius Whalen, Robert Cobb, Frank Michler Chapman Jr., William Gaxton, Bing Crosby, Tyrone Power Jr., Fred Astaire, James Melton...