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Died. The Most Rev. John Joseph Cantwell, 72, first Archbishop of Los Angeles (the archbishopric was created in 1936); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Los Angeles. Brawny, Irish-born Cantwell was credited with being the founding father of the potent Legion of Decency...
Author Cary is an Irish-born, Oxford-educated writer who has been widely acclaimed in England. The Moonlight is the second of his eleven novels to be published here. Readers may conclude that some English critics, who compare him to Tolstoy and Fielding, are overenthusiastic. But The Moonlight is superior to most of the fiction on the stands these days...
Died. Colonel John Henry Patterson, 79, zealous, Irish-born Protestant who became a Zionist leader; in Los Angeles. Famed as soldier and big-game hunter, Colonel Patterson commanded the British Army's World War I Jewish Legion, enjoyed the esteem of Fellow Hunter Teddy Roosevelt...
Died. The Most Rev. Michael Joseph Curley, 67, Irish-born Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore and Washington, outspoken foe of movies, Nazis and Communists (he caused a 1941 press furor when he said: "We of the U.S. are fighting side by side with Stalin, the greatest murderer of men the world has ever known"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Baltimore...
Sullivan, who is also secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Trades & Labor Congress, had nothing against unions. What angered Sullivan, Irish-born and onetime Roman Catholic, were the Communists in the unions. This was an eye-opener because Sullivan had long been a party-liner and, everybody felt pretty sure, a party member. In his roar of rage, Sullivan confirmed these suspicions. He said he had joined the Communist Party two years after he began organizing the C.S.U. in 1935. He led C.S.U. in its first successful strike in 1938, built up membership to about 5,000 in Great Lakes, river...