Word: hogans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soriano's polar opposite in Manila is stocky, cleft-chinned Father Walter B. Hogan, 37, a Jesuit priest from Philadelphia who arrived in the Philippines in 1933, became a teacher at Ateneo de Manila, a Jesuit college. He was professor of classics and the clarinet-toting mentor of the school band; the boys called him "Benny Goodman in a cassock." He also developed a deep interest in Filipino workers and Catholic trade unionism; in 1947 he established Ateneo's Institute of Social Order...
...Father Hogan has said: "Religion is a pretty abstract thing if a guy isn't getting three square meals a day." He knows that three square meals a day are not possible for most Filipino wage earners, who average $2.46 a day for unskilled labor, $3.80 for skilled. When Manila capitalists recently complained of Father Hogan to Apostolic Delegate Egidio Vagnozzi, the Vatican envoy firmly replied: 'Father Hogan is preaching the doctrine of the church...
...Soriano was speaking, Father Hogan took a place at the head of the picket line, earnestly urged the workers to stay out until their demands were met. This was too much for Philippine Labor Secretary Primitive Lovina, who also happens to be a close friend of Colonel Soriano. Hogan, Lovina said, was "an undesirable alien and a mere agitator...
...whole procedure was "cutting the Constitution right through the middle," sputtered Erickson's attorney. To which Judge John A. Mullen replied: "Anyone who publicly proclaims himself to be in the bookmaking business must expect to have his records examined." District Attorney Hogan confidently made a date with the grand jury...
Bantam Ben Hogan had played good golf since his comeback last winter (TIME, Jan. 16), but he had yet to win a tournament. In the Greenbrier open tournament at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. this week, he made up for all that. Ben's winning score: a 21-under-par 259 for 72 holes, tying the alltime world record for play on a par-70 regulation course. Said Ben: "I'm picking up where I left...