Word: franciscans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more practical pursuits. To earn money for his first pair of long pants, he invented a thief-proof auto lock which netted him $25. At 19 he was working in a railroad yard. Then he landed a job in the fund-raising office of George Everson, a San Franciscan with brains and friends...
...Buena in California had not changed its name to San Francisco (St. Francis) in 1847, it might forever have lacked a colossus. It might also have been spared a long and bitter argument about that project which has involved its creator, Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano, with the City Fathers, the Franciscan Order, the Archbishop of San Francisco, the Federal Art Project and, last and most lathered of all, Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Mr. Pegler discovered San Francisco's proposed colossus early this month and slapped it square on the button...
That's me all over, thought each of the 125 jobhunters who last week answered advertisements for an "Honest man with moral qualifications wanted to play the part of Sir Galahad." The man in search of a Galahad was Franciscan Patrick Mc-Carthy of St. Christopher's Inn, Graymoor. N. Y. Chosen Galahad, after two hours of auditions and soul searchings, was 17-year-old Business-Schoolboy Ralph Welliver...
...clearly. Before him knelt three consistorial lawyers, pleaders for three saints whose visages and deeds the people beheld upon great banners in St. Peter's-Andre Bobola, Polish Jesuit (1592-1657), Giovanni Leonardi Italian founder of a religious congregation (1541-1609), Salvador da Horta (1520-67), humble Spanish Franciscan lay brother. Thrice the lawyers begged the Pope-instanter, instantius and instantis-sime-to grant the canonizations. The Pope, imploring the guidance of the Holy Ghost, pronounced a formula of sanctification for each saint, then intoned a prayer while the bells of St. Peter's and all the churches...
Many a San Franciscan last week learned for the first time that one of his city's most famed financiers and business men, President Herbert Fleishhacker of Anglo California National Bank, had been sued by stockholders of the bank "to obtain an accounting and recover secret profits on behalf of said bank." When his case went to trial in San Francisco's post-office building last summer (TIME, Sept. 6), no San Francisco newspaper cared to mention the fact. Last week, however, when Federal Judge Adolphus Frederick St. Sure finally handed down his decision, local papers could...