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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last night the Varsity Hockey squad entrained for Canada to continue its gruelling February League schedule with two games this week in the frozen North--Montreal University tonight at the Montreal Arena and McGill tomorrow night at the same place. Following closely on the heels of two rather hectic Quadrangular League battles, with Dartmouth and Yale respectively, this Canadian trip will complete just about as tough a week's ice workout as the most ardent hockey fan could hope...
...also a "Pope of Saints," canonizing during his reign some of the most popular saints of modern times: St. Therese, St. Bernadette of Lourdes, St. Giovanni Bosco (a social service worker who had once been his friend), England's St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher, North America's eight Martyrs. Yet the greatness of Pius XI derived less from his spiritual labors for the Kingdom of God than from his long, uncompromising battle against the pretensions of modern Caesars...
...minimum period between the Pope's death and the opening of the conclave to 15 days. Last week it looked as if Cardinal O'Connell, 79 and ailing, wintering in Nassau, might miss his third conclave. At news of the Pope's death he booked passage north on an airplane, then caceled it for his health's sake, embarked for Manhattan on a ship...
...steadily during January, was tidily up. Whether this marked the beginning of a new upward trend remained in doubt last week as the Index showed a slight decline of .4 points-from 99.2 to 98.8. The public's spending was off everywhere except in financial centres, where the North American Co.'s $105,000,000 refunding produced a spurt-which is likely to prove brief since no big capital issues are scheduled for the next few weeks...
...former head of the Foreign Press Association in Berlin, winner of a 1933 Pulitzer Prize for his despatches on the rise of Hitler, and author of Germany Puts the Clock Back-the book that got him kicked out of Germany. Last year he spent several months in Central and North China, interviewed foreigners, Chinese, the "Amazing Soong Family," watched a Japanese bombing massacre with U. S.-made planes, saw the guerrillas in action behind the Japanese lines...