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Married. Maxine Rickard, 32, widow of Fight Promoter George L. ("Tex") Rickard; and Thomas Aloysius Gill, 39, Chicago stockbroker; in Chicago...
...postman who takes a walk on his holiday is a joke. Last week the nation chuckled when it was revealed that Postmaster General James' Aloysius Farley had been granted a payless leave of absence from his Cabinet post, would spend his new leisure at politics. Beginning Aug. 1, announced President Roosevelt, "General" Farley would give his time for three months to his duties as chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
...robed Roman Catholic Bishop Lamb finished his prayer, James Aloysius Farley stepped forward to the rostrum and said: "I will ask that the Convention stand for one minute in solemn tribute to a great American-Will Rogers." Had National Democratic Chairman Farley paused a moment longer before naming his late "Great American," 3,000 delegates and alternates would doubtless have burst into improper cheers, so brimming were they with enthusiasm. For nearly an hour longer they restrained themselves, until Boss Farley came down upon the words: "that calm, capable and courageous Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt!" Then, at the first mention...
Meanwhile Dominion subjects noted that the only one of the King's numerous premiers to figure in the Birthday Honors was Australia's ebullient Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons, upon whose advice His Majesty acted last week in appointing Mr. Lyons to the Order of Companions of Honor. Popular was a posthumous gesture by King Edward toward the late Rudyard Kipling, who repeatedly refused a knighthood. The doctor who operated upon Poet Kipling in his last hours (TIME, Jan. 27), Surgeon Alfred Edward Webb-Johnson, received a knighthood...
When the black-robed, Jesuit community of New York's Fordham University sat down to lunch in the refectory one noon last week, Aloysius Joseph Hogan was at the head of the table as well as the college, with Robert Ignatius Gannon on his right. When the community rose, Father Gannon was at the table's head. with Father Hogan on his right. During the meal a young Jesuit scholastic had brought Father Hogan an order from Rome sending him on to be dean of Georgetown University's graduate school, upping Father Gannon to Fordham...