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Shortly afterward the Cardinal sailed from Manhattan on the S. S. Rex, bound for Vatican City to report to Pope Pius XI and attend the beatification of a woman who may be the first U. S. citizen-saint, Italian-born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini (TIME, Sept. 12). Said the Cardinal...
*When a newsman suggested: "Maybe C. I. O. has put on long pants" (i.e., grown up so that it will not go back to A. F. of L.), Frances Perkins cracked: "Do you want to see them sans culottes [pantsless]?"
No. 1 investigator of U. S. Indian music is a spry, 71-year-old, grey-haired woman, Frances Densmore. For the past 45 years, methodical Spinster Densmore has periodically left her old family home in Red Wing, Minn, to traipse over North America salvaging Indian war whoops and love songs...
Appointed "social ambassadress-at-large" for San Francisco's 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition was Manhattan café society's clown, Elsa Maxwell. Irked, the N. Y. Daily News's World's Fair-conscious "Nancy Randolph" (real name: Frances Kilkenny) wrote: ". . . To-day this column intends...
While Detroit hummed, the rest of the U. S. also contributed to the din of reviving times. Carloadings hit a 1938 high of 726,612-23,000 above the previous week but still 79,000 under the same week year ago. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins reported that placements by...