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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catholics have been seeking the canonization of Mother Seton, and their hopes are high that the Vatican will make her the first U. S.-born saint.* Mother Seton founded the Catholic parochial school system and the Sisters of Charity in the U. S. Today, 8,911 nuns of her order, eight colleges, 160 high schools and academies, 447 parochial elementary schools and many a hospital and asylum are her monuments. Last week, Rev. Leonard Feeney, poet and associate editor of the Jesuit weekly, America, argued her claims to sainthood in an eulogistic, lyrical biography.† Cried he: "It will...
...Roberts Rinehart her Tish stories for CBS broadcasting. Most lavish gift of all came from Medical Crusader Paul de Kruif, who has turned over his radio rights to Microbe Hunters, Hunger Fighters, Men Against Death, Why Keep Them Alive, The Fight for Life. Dramatization of all these books in order went into production this week, will be a CBS coast-to-coaster Thursday evenings at 8 beginning June 30. NBC's projected Federal show is U. S. Secret Service, dramatizations of closed cases; MBS's is Command Performance, 13 famous plays chosen by audiences and radio critics...
...among the newsprint rolls in the basement of the Times plant, crippling the presses. Promptly, the Tribune offered its presses. Promptly, the Times accepted the Tribune''?, "good neighbor" offer and, missing but one edition, managed to run off 250,000 of its normal 380,000 daily print order. Fun-loving Times Managing Editor Louis Ruppel, onetime Washington correspondent of the New York Daily News, put a picture of his smoking plant on the front page with a series of wisecracking banner headlines for his "Fire Editions." The headlines...
Fortnight ago. the Turkish Ministry of the Interior issued the following order for Istanbul...
...straw with a layer of clay. This furnished the necessary insulation. Some present-day English builders are reputedly able to make successful dew ponds, but they generally use concrete instead of straw and clay. Moreover, after construction, these modern ponds have to be filled with water first in order to keep going. Whether the ponds of the ancients filled up by natural accumulation of water, starting from a dry basin, no one knows...