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...Most Rev. John J. Scanlan, Auxiliary Bishop of Honolulu's Roman Catholic Diocese, promptly protested. "It certainly seems in bad taste that the delegates should choose this occasion to offend the largest religious group in these islands [and] to attack the motives and teachings of that Church which is the Mother of Christian civilization...
JOHN F. O'SCANLAN...
Died. The Rev. Brother Paul (Peter E. Scanlan), 85, onetime (1928-37) superior-general of the Roman Catholic Congregation of the Brothers of St. Francis Xavier; in Fort Monroe, Va. As superintendent of St. Mary's Industrial School in Baltimore, Brother Paul encouraged the star of the school's baseball team, a promising lefthanded pitcher named George Herman Ruth...
...freshman team will consist of: Paul Judy, Arlen Adams, John Kimball, Jim Little, Goody Cooke, Tom Edwards, Guido Perers, Chuck Boit, Bill Blumenthal, Mat Scanlan, Bob Swaney, and John De Botynkops. The freshmen will run 3.2 miles...
...summer day in 1920, Oscar Holcombe was cooling off at a soda fountain in Houston's old Scanlan Building. He ridiculed the idea that he should run for mayor. He explained to a friend that he was happy and prosperous as a building contractor. But he ran anyway, defeated the city attorney, the vice president of the Houston Post and a county commissioner who was considered the shoo-in candidate. He did it by "shaking hands with everybody in town . . . up one side of the street and down the other...