Word: conn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joseph A. Locke, Jr., Newton Centre, Mass.; Wesley H. Lowell, Jr., Holden, Mass; Joseph P. Lyford, Wilton, Conn.; Denis J. Maguire, Brockton, Mass.; Henry W. Maxwell, Jr., Hinsdale, Ill.; George P. Mayhew, West Roxbury, Mass.; Elbert M. Moffatt, Jr., Bombay, India; Edward C. Moore, St. Augustine, Fla.; Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr., Baltimore, Md.; David P. Oakes, Seattle, Fla.; Charles H. Oldfather, Lincoln, Neb.; Melvin Pollard, Dorchester, Mass...
...Bishop Takach had won instant approval by ordaining married men to the priesthood. But in 1929 another apostolic letter was issued by the Vatican, this one forbidding bishops to appoint married priests to Greek Rite posts. Bishop Takach obeyed the order, but in Bridgeport, Conn., a priest dared not only oppose it but circularized Greek Catholic churches to stir up more opposition. This priest, a widower named Rev. Orestes Peter Chornock, was thereupon removed from his rich, comfortable Bridgeport parish, rusticated to a tiny church in Roebling...
...Heavyweight Nathan Mann, 22, of New Haven, Conn.; a ten-round boxing match with New York's Bob Pastor; in which Pugilist Mann overcame Pugilist Pastor's famed running-and-holding propensities, decisively squelched his claim to being No. 1 contender for the world's heavyweight championship; in Manhattan...
Back at home in Gaylordsville, Conn., Artist Blume settled down to paint and to train his bird dog, Sammy. In 1934 an old painting of his, South of Scranton, won first prize at the Carnegie International Exhibition and Peter Blume became one of the most talked-of U. S. artists (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934). South of Scranton was the result of driving a flivver in that direction one spring, through Pennsylvania's hills of coal and slag into the Blue Ridge Mountains and east to Charleston Harbor. From what he remembered most vividly Blume made a composition of contrasts...
...Dempsey to defend his world's heavyweight championship in 1927, he got $990,000, Dempsey $425,000. Dempsey now prospers as the head of a big, bustling restaurant on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue. Tunney prospers in a different way. In 1928 he married Polly Lauder, a Greenwich, Conn, steel heiress, took up Shakespeare, began making friends with businessmen and bankers. Soon he was a corporation director sitting on the boards of companies like New York Shipbuilding Corp. Last week he was elected director of another-Morris Plan Industrial Bank of New York...