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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proved to be the red-beaded flash from Flushing, Don McNicol, whose running Saturday provided the winning margin. But to designate McNicol as the only back on the team seems short-sighted and developments during the week may lead to a shift of wing-back Caleb Loring to the number 4 position...
...hated & feared the Pope. French lawmakers bundled up their prejudices in a Laic Law which, among other things, required State authorization for religious orders. When France went to war in 1914, thousands of members of secret, mufti-wearing orders emerged from their bolt-holes to serve la patrie. The number of aumôniers (chaplains) in the French forces was limited-400 in the army, 50 in the navy, none in the air force. Most priests were assigned to noncombatant duties. A few had anticlerical officers who forced them to fight. A few more fathers showed a taste for fighting...
Beford World War II broke, the number of army aumƦniers was increased to 600. The navy quota remained the same; the air force got 30. Catholic aumônier general (chaplain general), commanding 500-odd Catholic aumƦniers, is Monsignor Maurice Sudour, Archdeacon of St. Denis, who gets a general's pay, wears a general's star. Ordinary chaplains have no rank, but a captain's pay, wear religious garb behind the lines, khaki at the front. By special dispensation from Rome, all Catholic aumƦniers and other front-line priests may hear...
Every fall the U. S.'s No. 2 industry* buds with optimism. This week it is in full flower. For motormakers 1938 was a hard year (4th worst in number of sales since record 1929) with profits down as much as 70%, total production little more than half of 1937. But the close of the 1939 automobile year on September 30 showed: 1) profits up moderately; 2) total production of 3,587,000 units (4th best year since 1929) up 33% over 1938; 3) new car stocks not over 147,000 units-within 2% of their historic 1938 Sept...
Merry Herskovits starred for the Yardlings and Jim Gleason played a dependable game at goal, knocking down a number of would-be goal kicks...