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Word: francises (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fathered by a bushy-haired, oldtime social worker named Charles Frederick Weller and a chubby little Hindu named Kedernath Das Gupta, the World Fellowship has for chairman famed Methodist Bishop Francis John McConnell, for honorary presidents Jane Addams and Herbert Hoover (who let his name be used "if anyone thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fellowship of Faiths | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

"General" Farley used about the same oblique strategy when week before he got Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins to accept American Federation of Labor's Edward Francis McGrady as her No. 1 assistant. When Miss Perkins was appointed, the A. F. of L. was outraged because she had no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Peaceful Penetration | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

Convivial, black-haired Francis Xavier Shields, handsomest of U. S. tennis players, looked in 1931 like a better prospect than Vines. This year he started so erratically that he was automatically left off the Davis Cup team, revenged himself by winning five U. S. tournaments in a row, roundly beating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tennis Climax | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

Like his predecessor Archbishop Lamy, Archbishop Gerken has been a builder. Iowa-born, he went to West Texas 26 years ago. In his Abilene parish he built ten churches, among them the first in the U. S. dedicated to St. Therese de Lisieux ("Little Flower"). In Amarillo diocese he built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Santa Fe's Seventh | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

7.30 P. M. Reception for new students in the Large Dining Hall of the Harvard Union. The speakers will be: the Honorable Charles Francis Adams, the Reverend Willard Learoyd Sperry, and Professor A. C. Hanford, Dean of Harvard College. Dean Leighton will preside. President Conant will speak either at this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Program for "Freshman Week" | 9/1/1933 | See Source »

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