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...Died. Gabriel Amand, 62, general secretary of the 1937 Paris International Exposition opening next month; of cerebral congestion, attributed to overwork; in Paris...
Last autumn, to comply with the law which required that the Commission be appointed within 90 days after its passage, President Roosevelt "temporarily" named three men : Admiral Henry Ariosto Wiley, Rear Admiral Harry Gabriel Hamlet and Treasury Official George Landick...
...donned his black & gold uniform, his cocked hat with white feathers and had himself ferried out to U. S. S. Indianapolis. If Sir Murchison's stout British heart suffered any anxiety that Franklin Roosevelt might greet him with the same sort of bunny hug lately practiced on President Gabriel Terra of Uruguay (see cut) and other non-British notables, his fears were quickly dissipated. The President shook hands at arm's length, charmed Sir Murchison with nothing more embarrassing than a smile...
That was not Franklin Roosevelt's last of South America, however. Next morning the Indianapolis docked at Montevideo and he came down the gangplank literally into the arms of Dr. Gabriel Terra, Uruguay's beaming President. They had a three-hour drive, passed 200,000 applauding Uruguayans, and Lieut. Colonel Roosevelt laid a wreath on the monument of Uruguay's liberator, General José Artigas. There followed another official luncheon at which Dr. Terra praised his own New Deal in Uruguay and then, with Latin preoccupation with domesticity, declared: "I raise my glass in a toast...
...Last week Father Schulte was in Manhattan, full of plans for adding northern Canada to MIVA's territory. During the summer, accompanied by Toronto Pilot Pat Howard, he flew an all-metal Junkers named Santa Maria to the mouth of the Mackenzie River, presented it to Most Rev. Gabriel Breynat, O. M. I., vicar general of that vast area. In December, when the Mackenzie freezes solid, Father Schulte will again fly north, leave at least one plane equipped with wheels, floats and skis. In the north heretofore Catholic missionaries-most of them Oblates-have spent winter after winter isolated...