Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back to the Old Trade. As a novice in his order, Fray José Francisco de Guadalupe had been startled to learn the extent of the chronic shortage of clergy in Roman Catholic South America; he found that on the continent there were areas half as large as Spain without a priest, some 40,000 parishes without pastors. His decision was to go back as a priest to the crowds and microphones he had given up. Since then he has carried his recruiting and fund-raising campaign into Venezuela, Chile, Colombia and Argentina...
...four years of hammer-&-tongs competition for players and grandstand customers, the old, established National Football League and the brash new All-America Football Conference had almost succeeded in beating each other unconscious. To outside pleas for a merger, each side replied through gritted teeth that the other's conditions were unacceptable. Last week they finally came to terms in a hands-down victory for the National League...
After a fourth season of sagging attendance and mounting deficits in both leagues, National League club owners deputized thick-set League Commissioner Bert Bell to deal secretly with Manhattan Attorney J. Arthur Friedlund, the chosen negotiator of the All-America Conference. In two days & nights of almost continuous bargaining in Philadelphia's Racquet Club, the two men reached agreement...
Under the new setup there will be one 13-team organization, the National-American Football League, with Bell as commissioner. All ten of the former National League teams will be in the new league. Of the All-America's seven teams, three-the Cleveland Browns, the Baltimore Colts and the San Francisco 49ers, joined the new group; three more-the Buffalo Bills, the Los Angeles Dons and the Brooklyn-New York Yankees-will each merge with one or another of the 13 survivors. The players of the remaining team, the Chicago Hornets, will go into a common league pool...
...Cleveland this week the two top teams of the All-America Conference met for the league's last game. On a muddy, slippery field the Cleveland Browns defeated the San Francisco 49ers, 21 to 7, to win the league championship for the fourth year...