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...Holy Joe" McKee, grave, handsome, scholarly, was born & bred in the sprawling Bronx north of the Harlem River. As a boy he sold newspapers. At Fordham University he was an honor graduate. Before studying law he taught Latin and Greek at his Alma Mater, English in one of the city's high schools. He still writes magazine articles under the name of James W. Dawson. A good Democrat, he is not a Tammany man. His political mentor is New York's Secretary of State Edward J. Flynn, Bronx boss and Roosevelt supporter. In 1925 he was first elected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: McKee for Walker | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...past seven years the foremost U. S. prelate at the Vatican. Born 43 years ago the son of a Whitman grocer, "Frank" Spellman is recalled by at least one person - a Whitman taxicab driver - as an able baseball player. He went to Whitman High School, was graduated from Fordham University in 1911. The next five years he spent in the North American College in Rome, to which he was appointed by Cardinal O'Connell. Ordained in Rome, he returned to the Boston archdiocese, in which he became successively director of Catholic literature, editor of the (Catholic) Boston Pilot, assistant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Boston's Bishop | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

...Canada is 35 times as large as New Zealand," said New Zealand's Coates. "and let us hope her heart is proportionately generous." His Majesty's Lieu-enant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia, plump, guttural J. W. Fordham Johnson, sped the delegates to their train for Ottawa. Croaked he: "Anything short of success at this Conference might well have unthinkable results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Imperial Conference | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...year-old sophomore at New York University. At a Boston meet last winter he jumped 6 ft. 8½ in. in the eccentric manner which he acquired practicing at home, in Flushing, L. I. Almost certain of a place on the U. S. team last week was Joe McCluskey, Fordham steeplechaser, who learned about distance running when he was a newspaper delivery boy in Manchester, Conn. The U. S. has the world's record shotputter, Leo Sexton, and a huge blond Californian, Herman Brix, who, experts think, is just as good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: California's Year | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

Harvard 0, Pennsylvania 2Yale 8, Springfield 3 Harvard 3, Columbia 4 Yale 10, Columbia 4 Harvard 11, Maine 2 Yale 2, Columbia 1 Harvard 29, Boston University 3 Yale 4, Lafayette 5 Harvard 4, Syracuse 0 Yale 3, Fordham 14 Harvard 5, Penn State 0 Yale 0, Pennsylvania 8 Harvard 5, Pennsylvania 3 Yale 7, Syracuse 2 Harvard 2, Georgetown 8 Yale 11, Penn State 1 Harvard 8, Princeton 1 Yale 4, Pennsylvania 3 Harvard 12, Bates 1 Yale 15, Wesleyan 2 Harvard 4, Holy Cross 5 Yale 7, Dartmouth 4 Harvard 5, Brown 2 Yale 7, Dartmouth 9 Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and Yale Teams Have Close Records | 6/21/1932 | See Source »

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