Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demanded or cleverly cajoled contributions. Today Ticonderoga National Bank has some $1,000,000 in assets. In gratitude its directors elected Father Stevens to their board, made him honorary vice president. Fortnight ago the bank's President Roy Lockwood resigned in ill health. Unanimously the other Protestant directors chose Father Stevens to succeed him. Last week he accepted, aware that only nominally would he fill the unprecedented role of banker-priest. His term expires in four months; his only duties are to sign papers, attend meetings. Said he: "I'm a churchman, and not a banker. They simply...
...Generally chose, where an option was permitted, broad historical topics in preference to technical and restricted questions...
...wine. It also represents Catholicism openly on parade. To Catholics the spiritual benefits of Eucharistic Congresses have become obvious in the 32 international ones which have been held since 1881. Years ago the annual council of U. S. Catholic bishops voted to hold Congresses regularly every four years, chose Cleveland for the first. Pope Pius approved by naming the first legate who has represented him at a national U. S. Congress...
...receive his red hat. He looked too young to be a Cardinal. And he shocked many a Roman when he preached his first sermon in his titular church in English. Then the new Cardinal cabled home: "My blessings to Little Old New York." That, eleven years later, the Pope chose his "dear little brother" Hayes to send to Cleveland rather than Boston's imperious O'Connell, Philadelphia's autocratic Dougherty or Chicago's cheery Mundelein may mark his approval of the ways of the U. S. Church, as exemplified in a kindly man who says: "I am conceited enough...
...Pershing cabled Secretary Baker to send him "the ablest railroad man in the U. S.," was commissioned Brigadier General (admiring soldiers called him "General Attaboy"), set up a rail transport system that won him decorations from many an Allied government. An able handler and picker of men, he shrewdly chose to cooperate with or absorb air and bus lines instead of fighting them, hired the late Ivy Ledbetter Lee to humanize his big railroad in the public...