Word: joiners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...priests, journeyed last week to Vatican City. Not in years of Cook's Tours had the Romans seen so many Inglesi at one time-in all, 7,000 pilgrims, at whose head was no less a personage than Most Rev. Arthur Hinsley, 70, the son of a Yorkshire joiner, who last month succeeded the late Francis Cardinal Bourne as Archbishop of Westminster and Primate of 2,200,000 British Catholics. What brought Archbishop Hinsley and his flock to Rome was the impending canonization of Sir Thomas More and John Cardinal Fisher, first Englishmen in years to attain to sainthood...
Columbus Marion ("Dad") Joiner was in a Dallas court last week. His divorced wife was suing for a one-half interest in his $3,000,000 fortune. A 74-year-old wildcatter, "Dad" Joiner has been in courts for the better part of the last four years, not because of marital difficulties but because he was the man who brought in the first well in the second greatest oil pool in the world-the East Texas Field.* Dad Joiner has been at it since 1913. He yanked up his drilling rig 400 ft. short of oil under what later became...
...manhood of every one of its members." These two more or less general and philosophical ideas are tied down by the able Mr. Leach, and are constrained most convincingly to apply to the needs and trends of the moments. Essentially, the argument involves the Menckenian attack on the "joiner," but it employs this jeremiad in a gentler, more discursive, and more appealing way; it is a bit of comment apt and in good taste...
...members of the committee are: W. C. Joiner 2GB, J. W. Rice 2GB, C. E. Devlin 2GB, V. B. Gerard 2GB, J. J. Mullen 2GB, E. E. Liese 2GB, J. F. Childs 2GB, E. H. Moore 2GB, W. D. Sloane 2GB. The patrons and patronesses are: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dalton, Mr. and Mrs. Espy Foster. Mr. and Mrs. James Pierce, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. George Bates, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gilmore...
...already an Elk, Odd Fellow, 32nd degree Mason and joiner of a score more clubs and societies, joined the Improved Order of Red Men and the Tall Cedars of Lebanon in 1930, the American Philatelic Society and the Academic Diplomatique Internationale in 1931, etc. etc., the Maccabees last week. ¶ How, after winning the nomination last July on the fourth ballot, he dramatically flew to Chicago to address the convention. ¶ How he campaigned 12,000 mi. during September and October. ¶ How he was elected Nov. 8 by 22,813,786 votes to Hoover...