Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago disavowed Father Coughlin's addresses in their connection with the Catholic Church last Sunday, he clearly drew the line between the political and religious activities of the Radio Priest. This announcement that he is no longer "authorized to speak for the Catholic Church" and that his views "do not represent the doctrine or sentiments of the Church" is constructive and laudable, and will open the way for further action to stop expressions of opinion that are obnoxious both to Catholics and to the country as a whole...
...guest of honor and principal speaker the symposium featered George R. Agassiz '84, a past president of the Board of Overseers. Descended from a line of celebrated scientists, Agassiz was well qualified to talk on the contributions to the study of Darwin's theory by his father Alexander '55 and his grandfather Louis...
Born in Lawrence almost 66 years ago, George was trained as a mechanic. His literary talent, which became apparent early in life, was inherited from his father, George Russell Jackson, Boston newspaperman and author. A widower, Mr. Jackson will move to the home of a niece in Melrose...
...biggest wastepaper converters in the East, Clifton is a family-owned business. The family is the Desiderios, father and seven sons. Frank Desiderio, a strapping, grey-haired Italian, arrived in the U. S. in 1904, penniless, unemployed, unable to speak English. On borrowed money he bought a pushcart, tramped Newark's streets collecting wastepaper. In two years he had a horse and wagon, traded them for a two-cylinder Autocar in 1918. By 1926 the Desiderios owned a 100-truck fleet. When the old Clifton firm went bankrupt six years ago, they turned up with a batch of uncollected...
Last week in Millbrook (Little, Brown. $2.50) Author Lutes continued her homely reminiscences. In this volume her hardbitten, hard-eating, yo-year-old father has moved to a small 30-acre farm on the edge of a little village. It tells less about cooking, more about people, their gossip, scandals, fighting, country dances. Its highlights are Nell Peters' illegitimate baby, Cousin William's scandalizing city wife, the axe murder of Aunt Het. Like The Country Kitchen, its charm is that it dramatizes the horse-&-buggy atmosphere of an old almanac...