Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CSRLP would provide $30 every Thursday for every unemployed qualified voter over 50 who has lived a year in California. The money would be payable in $1 warrants, which would be annually "self liquidating" because whoever has one in his possession any Thursday in the year must affix a special 2? stamp to it. Treasurer of the Petition Campaign Committee sponsoring the plan is freckled Len R. Reynolds, onetime taxi driver turned firebrand. Last week, Treasurer Reynolds' receipts were estimated...
...soon became a handmaid for advertisers. Today, Printers' Ink, still pocket-size, is a weekly with 17,803 subscribers who spend nearly all of the nation's annual $1,768,000,000 na tional advertising budget. This week it marked its golden anniversary with a 472-page special edition summarizing the development of U. S. business as it was recorded in P. I.'s 2,571 preceding issues...
...Order of Servants of Mary (Servites) is a Roman Catholic mendicant order, founded in 1233 by seven noble Florentine youths in devotion to the Mother of God, with special reference to her sorrows. There are only 65 Servites in the U. S. In proportion to their numbers, those 65 fathers last week were by far the busiest of any religious order in the land...
Busiest of all was the handsome, dark-haired prior of a Servite community in Chicago, Rev. James R. Keane. Two winters ago, in Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Chicago, Father Keane inaugurated a perpetual novena in honor of Our Sorrowful Mother, with special Stations of the Cross and prayers of his own compilation. Last winter Father Keane's novena began getting publicity when 16,500 people attended it every Friday, each making nine devotions in succession to the Virgin, in hope of spiritual or material reward (TIME, Dec. 27). By last week, 50,000 Catholics were thronging...
...Four cathedrals were holding novenas, and four more planned to. Novena Notes, Father Keane's clubby weekly, had a circulation of 145,000. Each church requesting it and paying the cost of printing could obtain an edition containing a page of local notes. Churches could also buy special prayer books for the novena, 10? each...