Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freshmen who elect soccer as their fall sport are required to report three times a week, but may attend practice every day. In order to give all members of the squad a chance to prove their worth, there will be no cuts on the squad. To give all Freshmen the opportunity to play competively, the system inaugurated last year of dividing the players into teams, thus forming an intramural league, will be continued again this year...
...Bishop-elect Hurley's predecessor at St. Augustine, the Most Rev. Patrick Barry, had died only six days before. Such promptness in filling the vacancy was almost unprecedented. Obviously the Vatican was anxious to get Monsignor Hurley to the U. S. in an official capacity as soon as possible. Rumor had it that Monsignor Hurley, who as U. S. contact man for the Holy See saw much of Envoy Taylor, was going to the U. S. to continue his close cooperation with Mr. Taylor. Next day the Pope gave a private audience to the Bishop-elect, reportedly gave...
...Vatican to send an American as Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., especially since Britain has an English-born Papal representative. Present occupant of the hand some $1,000,000 Apostolic Delegation on Washington's Embassy Row is an Italian, the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani. Bishop-elect Hurley's six-year tenure at the Vatican, plus the diplomatic posts he has capably filled in India and Japan, make him a logical choice...
Except for a few Annapolis midshipmen who elect to join the naval air service, the U. S. Navy recruits its pilots through the Naval Reserve. At 13 Reserve air stations-Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Opa Locka (Miami), Kansas City, Glenview (Chicago), Seattle, etc.-an ever-increasing tide of would-be fliers is rolling in. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announced that three more Reserve stations would soon be opened (at New Orleans, Dallas, Atlanta), also supplied some details about the Navy's expanding air training program...
...hung out his shingle in Sao Borja, and for the next few years he practiced law between terms in the State, then the Federal, Legislature. In 1926 he became Minister of Finance in the Cabinet of President Washington Luiz Pereira de Souza, as a reward for helping to elect Luiz. One year later he was President (Governor) of the State of Rio Grande...