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...year term and he is not eligible for reappointment.* And it was a notable show of independence for Mr. McCarl to be critical of TVA, for the soft-spoken Comptroller General with his flowing Windsor tie was once secretary, close friend and political follower of TVA's best patron. Senator George William Norris of Nebraska...
Because More was a lawyer, his canonization took place in St. Peter's last Sunday on the feast of the patron of lawyers, St. Ives.* By happy coincidence it was also the feast of St. Dunstan, chancellor, Archbishop of Canterbury and politician (died 988). In the U. S., Catholics celebrated the occasion with special masses and meetings, including one in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral attended by many a judge and lawyer. In New Orleans, nine descendants of Sir Thomas More listened to the canonization by radio, envious of a tenth, Bernard Gonzales Carbajal, merchant...
...week in San Francisco docked Baron Henri de Rothschild who is neither a spectacle like his cousins nor a banker like his ancestors. Most justly famed of living Rothschilds, he is a practicing physician who researched cancer and founded free milk stations in Paris, an essayist and playwright, a patron of the arts who built a $2,000,000 theatre in Paris, a perfumer, big-game hunter, winemaker. At the San Francisco pier to meet him on the return half of a round-the-world trip were his auto-racing Son Phillippe and his daughter-in-law. Son Phillippe...
Canonized along with Blessed Thomas will be his colleague John Cardinal Fisher who joined him in defying Henry VIII and losing his head. Canonization date: the Feast of St. Ives (May 19), patron of lawyers...
...warmth of nature, for his kindliness, for his manly encouragement to youth, Harvard men of the present and of the past, salute their true "Copey," as professor, as patron and as friend...