Word: candies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another U. S. candidate is an Indian girl named Catherine Tekakwitha (1656-1680), for whose beatification proceedings were begun by the Bishop of Albany in 1931. Steps toward canonization include examination of the candi date's writings, collection of evidence on martyr dom or heroic practice of the theological virtues - faith, hope and charity - and the four great moral virtues - prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance. Evidence of two miracles worked before beatification and two afterward is required for canonization...
Before the ornate altar of a Buddhist temple in a Tacoma side street, Julius Goldwater, one of the 50 white Buddhist priests in the U. S., intoned: "This candi date desires ordination." Red-robed Bishop Kenju Masuyama, head of all Buddhist temples in North America, placed a kesa (stole) around the neck of yellow-robed Mrs. Pratt. Chanted she: "I take my refuge in Buddha. I take my refuge in Dharma. I take my refuge in Sangha." Thus Mrs. Pratt entered the life of Upasika Bhikum ("Utmost Perfection of Womanly Virtue"). Taking a new name, Teiun, she continued...
...three-time Governor and the Democratic Party's skull-capped candidate for Vice President in 1924. When his third term as Governor ended last January, Brother Bryan announced that he was retiring to tend his three farms. Last week, at 68, by polling more votes than any other candi date in a nonpartisan primary, he won a nomination for Mayor of Lincoln...
...well aware was 32-year-old Candi- date Ingalls that he has an uphill grind before him, that his chances of success are none too large. Said he frankly: "I know it will be a hard fight but I'll be in there to win." What will probably help him most is the engaging friendliness of his public manner. When he answers his telephone at the Navy Department, he says simply: "Hello?Dave Ingalls." His immediate superior booms out: "Hello! This is Ernest Lee Jahncke, Assistant Secretary, United States Navy, speaking...
...political opponents in the recent campaign. However, his pop corn venture, his banking success, his Tank Corps experience proved him man enough to be elected State head of the American Legion. Thus both he and Republican Frank ("Chief") Haucke, another onetime State Legion head, gained local prominence. Gubernatorial Candi date Woodring defeated Candidate Haucke Nov. 4 by the close margin of 319 votes, following a campaign in which most of the color was interpolated by the Independent Candidate, Dr. John Richard ("Goat-Gland") Brinkley (TIME...