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...rebuke for the length of his message. He was on hand shortly after the Japanese invaded Manchuria in 1931, and during the battle for Shanghai coolly covered both sides: "I'd go in the morning to the Chinese front and then at noon call a taxicab and motor over to the Japanese front." He was at Addis Ababa shortly before Mussolini invaded Ethiopia...
James Ryan was ordained in the Franciscan Order at Teutopolis, Ill., in 1938, and in 1943 answered a Franciscan call for volunteers to go to Brazil. He spent his first nine Brazilian years ministering to the rubber tappers at Fordlândia, the vast plantation founded by the Ford Motor Co. and taken over in 1945 by the Brazilian government. He mediated between the workers and the plantation management, shared his medical supplies with the hospital and his canned beans with the hungry. He was then instructed to establish a new parish, centered on Santarém, which with...
...Texas navy, fastest-growing sport fleet in the country. A late starter in the nationwide boating boom, Texas is now intent on becoming the top boating state in the U.S. Though national marine sales are down 14% from last year, boat sales in Texas are up 42%, outboard motor sales 55%. One out of every eight Texas families now owns a boating rig (national average: one family out of twelve...
Dean Watson has announced that restrictions on motor scooter, motor cycle, and motorbike parking will continue next year. Earlier this spring a petition from irate Lowell House students succeeded in temporarily closing the Lowell area parking lot during the late hours...
...also one of the eight original stockholders in the now defunct Hudson Motor Car Co. His name was given to the company's cars because the other investors liked its sound...