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...orchestra, they asked Chavez to head it. They gave their first concert in September 1928, soon won a subsidy from the Government. In his nine years with the Mexican Symphony, Chavez has built up a crack 90-man personnel and the most open-minded audience in the world. Workers flock to the free concerts he gives for them on Sundays...
...series President Conant will speak, summarizing the preceding talks and framing them in general observations on education and concentration. As long as the faculty regard the occasion so seriously that people in the positions of Professor Munn and Professor Sachs speak for their fields, the first year men will flock in and listen carefully. To an extra large degree, therefore, the scheme depends on the effort and interest of the teachers...
...fouled from having been used as a stable and the cathedral in possession of an Aglipayan priest, this sturdy son of Patrick and Bridget Dougherty girded for action. He gathered a band of loyal Catholics, braved a shower of stones to wrest the cathedral from the Aglipayan. Arming his flock he toured his diocese reopening and reconsecrating churches, confirming as many as 70,000 Filipino children at a time, spending weeks on horseback and at times paddling his own canoe through the jungle. He visited a colony of Catholic lepers alone, his guides dreading the plague spot. With...
...intimated to the Vatican. He was named bishop of Buffalo, where he sold Liberty Bonds, built schools and churches, liquidated a $1,100,000 debt on a new cathedral. In 1918 he became Archbishop of Philadelphia where ever since the name of "Dockerty" (as many of his flock pronounce it) has been a potent one. Strictest disciplinarian of the four U. S. Cardinals, he rules his clergy with an iron hand, insists on punctuality, obedience, deference. To a young shipboard visitor on his recent trip he growled: "Boy, take off your cap!" Philadelphia newspapers know better than to print anything...
...fourth quarter with operations at 66.2% finished capacity. Profits for the full year footed up to $50,525,000, largest since 1930 and a phenomenal improvement over the piffling $1,146,000 earned last year. On the strength of this report and the involuntary aid of a flock of bears caught short of the stock, U. S. Steel was run up to $100 per share, par, highest price in six years...