Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have won the Grand American. No one has ever won it more than once. In the huge field?722 last week?high-class shooters have an almost insuperable handicap in firing from as far away as 25 yd., 9 yd. farther than those with the lowest ratings. Last week, Rev. Garrison Roebuck, United Brethren minister of Defiance, Ohio who won last year, finished with a wretched 71. A heavy rain made the visibility so poor that from time to time all firing ceased...
...Washington plumped for a Roosevelt last week. Upon the New York Governor at Albany called Rev. Richard Blackburn Washington, a Hot Springs (Va.) Catholic priest, whose father was the last member of the family born at Mt. Vernon. Father Washington's great-great-grandfather, John Augustine Washington, was the first President's younger brother. Opined Father Washington: "Governor Roosevelt strikes me as the type of man with whom the good of the nation comes first. He is the same sturdy American type as George Washington. In fact I believe George Washington and Franklin Roosevelt may be called...
...First Sulpician ever to get a red hat, Cardinal Verdier was invested by Pius XI in person. He is currently in the U. S. on a tour of Sulpician houses. Though fluent in French, German and Italian, he speaks little English, has for interpreter and traveling companion Very Rev. John F. Fenlon, superior of U. S. Sulpicians, president of St. Mary's Seminary & University in Baltimore. Last week Cardinal Verdier arrived from Montreal by way of Worcester, Mass., stopped a few days in a French church in Manhattan, then entrained for Baltimore. Thence he was to go to Washington...
...Joliet, Ill., Rev. John Keating of Sacred Heart Catholic Church found the rectory safe locked. No one knew the combination. Rev. Keating appealed to Warden Frank Whipp of Illinois State Penitentiary for an expert safecracker. Warden Whipp demurred...
...Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England answered Mr. Lansbury, "I am unable to take any such action as you indicate...