Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. The Rev. John J. Wynne, S.J., 89, leading Jesuit scholar, founder and onetime editor of the famed Roman Catholic Encyclopedia (1903-14) and the Catholic weekly America (1909); in The Bronx...
...Received into membership two new church groups-the Religious Society of Friends of Philadelphia & Vicinity (membership: 4,865), and the Rumanian Orthodox Church in America (membership: 21,000). This raises to 27 the Council's roster of member church groups...
...propaganda for the U.S. in the East-West battle, but a memorable and characteristically Quaker act. Said the Christian Science Monitor's Roscoe Drummond, of the Friendship Train: "One of the greatest projects ever born of American journalism." Next month, as a Gallic gesture of gratitude, a "Merci, America" train of 49 French boxcars will be shipped across the Atlantic, with such gifts for the 48 states and Hawaii as Sevres vases from President Vincent Auriol and bronze school bells from Caen...
...everybody's All-America. Only two other players, both linemen, were unanimous on the big All-Americas (Collier's board of coaches, Look's Grantland Rice, the A.P., U.P. and Sporting News...
...University of Southern California player made All-America-though U.S.C. gloriously wound up the season last week by tying Notre Dame, 14-14. The tie broke Notre Dame's string of victories at 21, one more than Knute Rockne's record...