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...Archbishop-Designate Jean Marie Rodrigue Villeneuve of Quebec who is likely to be Canada's next Cardinal. Said Bishop Georges Courchesne of Rimouski in the consecration sermon: "Your courage, Monsignor Turquetil, in overcoming the dread of a discouraging solitude and white silence of the North is explained by your ardent desire to serve God, convert pagans to Catholicism and increase the ranks of the Catholic population...
Died. Florence Kelley, 72, famed humanitarian, ardent reformer of women's and children's labor laws, longtime secretary of the National Consumers' League, credited with having influenced the social policies of Alfred Emanuel Smith; of complications derived from anemia; in Philadelphia...
Governor Roosevelt, youthful collector of nautical Americana, now ardent philatelist, will no doubt receive the support of the stamp-collecting public (est. 100,000 of voting age) should he secure the Democratic nomination for President...
...following day Secretary Hurley returned as a witness to the Senate committee where he rowed as follows with Senators King of Utah and Cutting of New Mexico, both ardent advocates of Philippine independence...
Because the power to tax is the power to destroy, William Gibbs McAdoo, ardent Dry, last week urged the Senate to put a 100% levy on the profits of bootleggers and dope peddlers. In a letter to Senator Walsh of Montana, the onetime Secretary of the Treasury admitted it might not be possible to collect the full tax on such illegal incomes but he argued that "presently" the liquor wholesalers would be reached and their income "dried...