Word: john
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...Mother Mary Magdalene is canonized she will be the seventh saint created during the pontificate of Pius XI. Others are: St. John Eudes, who at the age of 14 vowed himself to perpetual chastity. preached in Normandy, founded in 1641 the Institute of Our Lady of Charity of the Refuge; St. John Baptist Vianney (1786-1859), famed parish priest of the little French village of Ars; St. Magdalen-Sophy Barat (1779-1865), foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart; St. Mary Magdalen Postel (1756-1846), foundress of the Sisters of Mercy of Christian Schools; St. Peter Canisius...
Resumption of dividends resulted largely from the work of able John Joseph Bernet, put in charge of the Erie in 1927 when the Van Sweringens began operating the road. Last month, leaving Erie to become president of both Chesapeake & Ohio and Pere Marquette (TIME, June 3), he was succeeded by Charles E. Denny...
...Harvard's commencement and reunion last fortnight. Banker John Pierpont Morgan stepped out of his line of march to handshake Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York. Last week Governor Roosevelt asked his Attorney-General to investigate at once and within two weeks report upon the new $665,000,000 Morgan merger of New York utility companies (TIME, June 24). Reason: It was "a matter of vital concern ... to every householder . . . who uses electric light or power in his home" if, through agreements with friendly companies, the Morgan merged companies would be in such a monopolistic position that...
...Wilfred Grenfell left Wiscasset, Me., last fortnight aboard his motor yacht Maraval, bound for his annual summer missionary work in Labrador, he took as usual several college boys to do Labra-chores. This year two of them are Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (Dartmouth) and Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (Princeton), grandsons of John Davison Rockefeller...
...least degree wrong-I am a shade over forty. Not until last week did Colyumist Phillips suspect that WILFRED J. FUNK might be neither a great name taken in vain nor a nom de plume. A casual but curious reader informed Colyumist Phillips that Wilfred John Funk is the name of a 46-year-old, married resident of Montclair, N. J. (Manhattan suburb). Montclair's Funk answers Contributor Funk's self-description in all important particulars, with the added particular that he is Publisher of the large, middle-aged Literary Digest. Publisher Funk last week evaded inquiries...