Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Edward J. Watson, 77, who as a telegraph messenger in the early 80s inspired the tales which Wisconsin's late Author-Governor George Wilbur Peck wrote up in the Peck's Bad Boy series; after long illness; in Milwaukee...
...record in favor of labor unions. But only a tiny minority of ministers and priests frequent picket lines. Last week labor unions loomed large among matters discussed at a Catholic Conference on Industrial Problems in Detroit. One of the great U. S. Catholic leaders, Detroit's Archbishop Edward Mooney, warned the conferees that "religious leaders in the present struggle between Americanism and Communism for the control of labor . . . [must] make Christian principles articulate" or "they will have to share their responsibility in the debacle that ensues...
Next day, to make his own principles articulate, Archbishop Mooney summoned all the 542 priests of his archdiocese-including one whose parish work is something of a side line, and whose love for labor is not great, Rev. Charles Edward ("Silo Charlie"*) Coughlin. As a starter in helping "Christian workers to train themselves in principle and technique to assume the leadership in the unions which their numbers justify," Archbishop Mooney proposed founding parish labor schools. Such schools, he said, might "sift the good from the bad in labor proposals, and be the defenders of sound, constructive union activity against . . . Communistic...
...last fall, said he, Governor Charles Francis Hurley told him: "You're not an expert. . . . Mr. Varney is not an expert. We need a man to take charge of this." Selected to "take charge'' was Architect Edward T. P. Graham, who had previously done work for Boston politicians. Month later, said Commissioner Reardon, Governor Hurley telephoned him: "Mr. Graham is on his way to your office with the contracts. You stay there and sign them...
...Sherman Gifford, president of both American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and New York's Charity Organization Society. Last week 37-year-old Barklie Henry was elected a member of A. T. & T.'s 19-man board of directors, filling the vacancy created last fall by the death of Edward D. Duffield, president of Prudential Insurance...