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Franklin Roosevelt is deeply indebted to one great big Elk, James Aloysius Farley, for engineering his election to the Presidency. Last week he warmly welcomed to the White House a whole troupe of great big Elks headed by their Grand Exalted Ruler. But the Elks in the President's office were not of Elk Farley's herd...
...midsummer in any ordinary year the President has said good-by to some six out of the ten members of his Cabinet as they and he part for long, needful vacations. Not until last week, however, did Franklin Roosevelt bid farewell to the first Cabinet vacationist, James Aloysius Farley. The prolonged session of Congress (see p. 10) provided no reason for detaining the Postmaster General. Having ordered the issuance of a purple 3? stamp commemorating the centennial of Michigan's admission to the Union in 1837,* he left on his desk only one important piece of unfinished business...
Amid dense fog 50 miles off Victoria, B. C., the liner Niagara carrying wavy-haired Premier Joseph Aloysius ("Honest Joe") Lyons & wife home from King George's Silver Jubilee was in head-on collision last week with another British ship, the freighter King Egbert...
Methodists. Congregationalists, Episcopalians have taken their turns at being head chaplain of the U. S. Navy, but not until this week did a Roman Catholic get the job. Appointed to succeed Captain Sydney K. Evans, Episcopalian, was Captain Edward Aloysius Duff, 50, of Philadelphia. Jovial, round-faced Father Duff, 20 years a chaplain on battleships and in Xavy yards, will sit at a desk in Washington, direct the spiritual welfare of 85,000 officers & men. Says he: "By actual count and statistics, a larger proportion of Navy men and officers attend church on ship and on shore than...
...President entertained a colleague from overseas, Prime Minister and Mrs. Joseph Aloysius Lyons of Australia, fresh from visiting King George in England and the Pope in Rome. Mr. Lyons' object: a friendly visit and discussion of a U. S.-Australian reciprocal trade agreement...