Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prince of the Church since 1924, benign and white-haired "Cardinal of Charities" to the 1,000,000 Catholics of the world's richest archdiocese. Forty-six years a priest, but never pastor of a church. Cardinal Hayes was the first native-born shepherd (which he liked to call himself) of New York. His steady rise in the church he owed to scholarship, administrative ability and an association with his predecessor, John Cardinal Farley, to whom he was successively assistant, secretary, chancellor and auxiliary bishop...
...Denver, Colo., Irvin H. ("Call Me Pop") Hanes announced his candidacy for the position of State Auditor. Excerpts from his campaign literature: "His knowledge of the problems of the farmer and labor is practically a total loss. ... He is not the 'outstanding candidate" for this office. . . . He is not universally respected...
...highly-specialized, prehensile-tailed mam mal which eats ants and termites. Because the natives of southern Asia think that it catches ants beneath its scales while pre tending to be asleep, they look upon it as a highly untrustworthy animal. According to one legend, whenever the pangolin answers a call made by a man in the forest, the man quickly meets with disaster. So far as Mr. Walker knew, Pandora is the only pangolin in captivity, certainly the only...
...aside a sinking fund of 10% of its monthly gross sales. With this sinking fund the company's trustee each month must buy debenture shares in the open market at any price up to $26.25. If debenture shares cannot be bought thus, the trustee must then call them by lot at $26.25. In short, when business is good, Sunray can easily retire its obligation; in bad times there will be no heavy maturity to upset the oil cart...
...Wetherill his near-defunct Florida Humus Co. ''for the price of a good automobile"; but Wetherill said he wanted peat bogs, not lawsuits. Humus has sold a piddling 10,000 tons per year, has nevertheless made a small profit since 1934. American Peat's production plans call for 125,000 bales the first year, ultimately 500,000 a year...