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...will hear more from me. I am going to get busy in this Legion business when I get out where I won't get in wrong when I say things. I am going [to Pennsylvania] tomorrow and tell those soldiers if they don't go out and lick that gang in Philadelphia I'll throw this uniform of mine...
Before a hillside altar at French Lick, Ind. last week, kneeling while Bishop John A. Floersh of Louisville celebrated a solemn pontifical field Mass, were 550 delegates to the 49th annual convention of the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus. Representing 61 State councils, 2,565 subordinate councils and more than 600,000 members, the Supreme Council meets annually, reports on the year's work. Ever proud of its charitable doings, it told how it had maintained an employment bureau in its home city, New Haven, Conn., recording 43,128 placements during the last year. In three drought...
Elected. Martin Henry Carmody. lawyer, of Grand Rapids, Mich.: to be Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, for his third consecutive term; by the Supreme Council of the K. of C.; at French Lick...
Arkansas' Governor Parnell went to French Lick, Ind. last week to attend the Governors' Conference. That left Lieutenant Governor Lawrence Wilson in charge of the State with all the powers and privileges of a chief executive. One of his first official acts was to pardon his brother Fred, convicted last March of grand larceny and awaiting formal sentence of four years in jail...
Upon French Lick, famed Indiana spa 42 mi. from the centre of U. S. population, converged last week 23 Governors of 23 States for their 23rd annual convention. Through the broad lobby of the big, buff French Lick Springs Hotel, set among wooded hills, they marched back & forth smoking, joshing, talking politics. They drank Pluto water ("If nature won't, Pluto will") at 55° direct from the spring -or piping hot at the hotel buffet. Many were the regretful comments on the absence of their friend, the late great Tom Taggart, Democratic boss of Indiana and millionaire proprietor...