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...tyro at power and waterway questions is Senator McDougald, onetime medical student who made a fortune in gold and married rich Miss Mary Hannan. He was chairman of the Montreal Harbor Board from 1922 until late in 1930. His experience in such matters caused his appointment to the Canadian National Committee, an advisory body to investigate the benefits and disadvantages that might result to Canada if the Canadian-U. S. St. Lawrence Waterway project were carried out. Known as the best-dressed Senator and one of the best looking men in Ottawa, he has a commanding presence, is a good...
...church deprived him of his ecclesiastical functions because he was a Pansenist.* The Abbé developed his sign system in order to teach his two deaf sisters to communicate. His finger alphabet is still in use. Eugene E. Hannan, deaf sculptor of the Buffalo statue, reproduced the Epée alphabet on to the statue's base. Modeling the expressive fists was the hardest part of his work, said he last week. The statue itself represents the Abbe studying his clenched right hand for its possibilities in signs...
...went to ask the priest who had charge of the altar boys, who said that Jimmy was too young. "In a few years we'll see," said Father Hannan. In a few days Jimmy came back to the Church. Father Hannan was away, and Father Orsini said that since it was too rainy for any of the regular altar boys to come Jimmy could put on a cassock this once. So at evening benediction James Walsh stood up solemnly near the altar for a while. He enjoyed it greatly, but perhaps, he thought, God would punish...
Another vice, reported by a Miss Irene Hannan: "Children are going to school so sleepy [that] their heads fall over on their desks, because they attended the dog [whippet] races the night before...