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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kind of member that comes for his own funeral when he can't kick any longer. I have one parishioner (?) who has not darkened the door of our church for 40 years. A zealous Mason tried to capture him for the order. The Mason told me he'd failed, and this was the reason: "Why, laws, I'm a Catholic! I belong to Father W." I gave the Mason a drink; the joke was good-and it was on the Mason and me. FATHER WILL WHALEN Old Jesuit Mission. Orrtanna...
...fact the ritual of farm relief hear- ings became so stupid that Oklahoma's Senator Thomas proposed a means of enlivening them. He would call tycoons of industry and finance?Henry Ford, John Pierpont Morgan, Charles Michael Schwab, Paul Moritz Warburg, Owen D. Young, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Andrew William Mellon?and have them say what was wrong with the farmer...
...George D. Carbary was elected State's Attorney of Kane County, Ill., on a reform platform. He pledged himself to dry up the county in general and the city of Aurora (to Chicago: 40 miles) in particular. Last week his enforcement promise produced: one dead woman, one man with a fractured skull, one deputy sheriff with a bullet in his leg, popular resentment so strong that the State of Illinois had to step in and take over the consequences of his official zeal...
Harvard will be playing its first game since March 23 when it rode to triumph over Pennsylvania Military College to gain the intercollegiate title. Captain F. D. Sharp, polo mentor, has however kept his squad in shape by holding several practice sessions during the two weeks rest from competition...
...University team will lineup as follows: R. C. Glenn '30, l.h., D. T. Saunders '30, o.h., C. W. Eiseman '30, 1a., H. G. Pope '31, 2a., Wayne Hobbs '31, 3a., T. I. Nido '30, c., S. P. Park '29, 3d., F. A. Pickard '29, 2d., H. M. Hartnett '31, 1d., J. W. Henderson '31, pt., G. S. Robinson '31, c.pt., W. J. Salmon...