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...Catholics do not mean to sit still while this happens. Fourteen bishops attended, the most ever. Many another prelate sent a personal representative, and for the first time a bishop, the Most Rev. Aloisius Joseph Muench of Fargo, was elected president. This was significant, because no Catholic movement can prosper unless it is backed by the hierarchy...
Since then botanists have hunted through Asia and bred in the U.S. varieties which will prosper in each type of soil and climate in the eastern U.S. and which have increased the yield per acre from 11.5 bushels (1924-27) to 18.7 bushels (1937-40). Among the 2,500 varieties are Huang-tou, Manchu, Ito San and Hahto; Lexington, Tarheel Black, Illini, Wilson and Roosevelt-a vivid index to the Asiatic heritage and U.S. adoption of the plant...
...William Edward Levis, board chairman of Owens-Illinois Glass Co., who inherited his business (the old Illinois Glass Co.), made it grow and prosper mightily...
...more oil taxpayers bought, the more SICO would prosper, and the more relief taxpayers would get from the burden of supporting their schools. Last week he sent to 62 school boards in Lancaster County the first installment of profits from his new trust. The gifts totalled $20,000. ranged from...
Behind him was 36 years' experience for just such a job. When, peasant-born, sketchily schooled, he won his first Diet seat in 1904, Finland was still a grand duchy under the Tsar of Russia. As Finland won its independence, began to prosper, so did Kallio, becoming fifteen-time Speaker of the Diet, four-time Premier, and, finally, President...