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...president of the Seton Committee; and gentlemen in tailcoats and black ties, including Biographer Father Code. A dozen similar audiences were to follow. To lend ecclesiastical prestige came Mother-General Marie LeBrun of the Sisters of Charity of Paris, Cardinals Donatus Sbarretti and Bonaventure Cerretti, Bishop John Joseph McMahon of Trenton, N. J. and Rev. Giuseppe Scognamillo of Rome, postulator (advocate) of Mother Seton. In the Papal throne-room they genuflected, presented to His Holiness a petition in 29 volumes, by 150,000 of the U. S. faithful. Cordially, briefly, His Holiness addressed the pilgrims in Italian, thanked them...
...Bronx, N. Y., Rose McMahon, 14, was given 25?, told that she might go to a cinema. Overjoyed, she danced about, shrilled "Whoopee!" Her somnolent father, Thomas McMahon, bade her be still. Again she crowed. Savage, wrathful, Thomas McMahon sprang up, tripped, fell headlong into a china closet, cut his throat, fractured his skull, died...
Conciliatory President Thomas F. McMahon of United Textile Workers, A. F. of L. affiliate, explained his organizers did not intend to call strikes in Southern mills, were opposed to forceful tactics, but were ready and willing, if necessary, to "fight for their right to organize." The radical National Textile Workers Union jeered this conservative proposal, charged the A. F. of L. with selling out strikes, called its whole Southern program a sham...
...Owen McMahon Johnson, novelist (The Tennessee Shad, The Varmint, Stover at Yale, Children of Divorce), announced last week (apropos his latest novel, Sacrifice): "Second marriages are happier than first marriages. The new form of divorce-I call it 'amicable divorce'-is on a friendlier basis and much easier on the children...
President Thomas F. McMahon of the United Textile Workers of America wired Governor Richards: _ "National executive board United Textile Workers of America in session here today instructs me to say to you that this organization will hold Governor of State as chief police officer personally responsible for safety of our representatives John Peel and Vernon Allen while in your state. According to telegrams reaching us from Representative Peel today his life was threatened by thugs in the employ of textile corporations in Ware Shoals and the local police authorities in that place instead of affording Peel proper protection...