Word: convention
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resigned the chancellorship in 1929; recalled last year, he failed to form a cabinet. In office and out he always lived as a simple priest in a small stone cloister cell, where each morning he celebrated mass. His noon meal was usually soup taken to him in a convent iron kettle...
...Little Flower's shrine at Lisieux, France, where Marie Francoise Thérèse Martin entered the Carmelite Convent at 15, many & many a pilgrim has journeyed. Fulfilled long ago by scores of miracles was the Little Flower's prediction that "Après ma mart je ferai tomber une pluie de roses" (After my death I will cause to fall a shower of roses). In gratitude, and for spiritual love, many francs, pounds and dollars have been given to the Carmelites at Lisieux in whose daily prayers all subscribers are remembered. At Lisieux last week there...
...Dublin, used as a carrier pigeon base, come their friend Joe Arigho, Commandant of Home Defense, and his young daughter Catherine, who trains the carriers. They are expecting messages from the front. Allen tries to make his guests easy, is made uneasy himself by Catherine. Just out of a convent, she has strange ideas of martyrdom for Ireland's sake. She talks fervently of a plan to meet the threatened invasion-to surrender parts of Ireland without resistance, in exchange for parts to remain unmolested, where Irish culture, Irish religion can be preserved. To matter-of-fact Brigid this...
Several men received the same degree as of the Class of 1930. They were: R. W. Canfield, of New York City, Samuel Cauman, of Brookline, J. E. McKenna, of Brighton, E. W. Olney, Jr., of Convent, New Jersey, J. J. Riley, of Charlestown, F. J. Von Scholer, Jr., of Huntington, Long Island, N. Y., R. A. Thomas, of New York City, and F. C. Troll, of St. Clairsville, Ohio...
...Montrose Graham two years ago. Son Allan, 37, has had complete charge of the coffee business for several years (he put it in cans), is the financial brains of the organization. He is smallish, neat, curly-mustached, rides to hounds with the Spring Valley Harriers near his home at Convent, N. J. But Mrs. MacDougall is still the decorative and culinary genius of the business. Her precept: "Remember that cleanliness is next to godliness and invest everything that you use in connection with coffee with a godlike cleanliness...