Word: pastor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Francis Patrick Duffy, 61. War-time chaplain of the "Fighting 69th" Regiment of New York, pastor of Holy Cross Church; of colitis and a liver infection; in Manhattan. He was born...
...Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., for Warsaw, Polish-American Pilot Stanislaus Felix Hausner, too exhausted to talk, was rescued from his floating Bellanca by a tanker, 600 mi. off the coast of Portugal. Astonished airmen marvelled at his "dumb luck." Pilot Hausner's attractive wife, Martha, and the pastor of the Polish-Catholic Church in Newark, N. J., which they attended were joyful but not astonished. They remarked that Pilot Hausner had carried a medal of St. Christopher, patron saint of travelers...
...Gaston Means from the good old Harding days when her husband played poker with the Ohio Gang, decided to hire him to trace the Lindbergh baby. A conference was arranged attended by Captain Emory S. Land, U. S. N., Col. Lindbergh's cousin, and Rev. Francis J. Hurney, pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Means said that the presence of a cleric in the negotiations would cement the kidnappers' confidence...
...lustful pastor in the late Jeanne Eagels' most successful play Rain was also a "Reverend Davidson." †Literally "conduct unbecoming a sheep herder," overseer or bishop. For Ye were as sheep going astray; but arc now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.-Peter...
...hand (pistol), after shooting her children, Susan, 15, and Raymond Elaine Jr., 10, to death in their sleep; in Montclair, N. J. Reason: homicidal mania growing out of a progressive form of paranoia for which she had been under treatment for several years. Brother of Manhattan's Pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick, Lawyer Fosdick was onetime Under Secretary General of the League of Nations, is now chief almoner to the House of Rockefeller. Died. Albert Henry Vestal, 57, U. S. Representative from the 8th Indiana District since 1917, Republican Whip of the House; of heart disease; in Washington. Congressman Sirovich...