Word: sweeney
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...Father Joseph Sweeney tried to run the Jap blockade on a Chinese coaster with a vitally needed load of medicine for his leper colony. When two gunboats shelled the ship he slipped overboard and swam six hours before reaching shore. Now, despite the spread of the war, he is busy as ever among his lepers...
...well-known opponent of Fascist groups in this country, Miss Sweeney especially denounced the wide-spread practice of the Boston newspapers, who hush up the activities of the groups...
Speaking at a symposium on native Fascist movements conducted here yesterday by the Harvard Teachers Union, Miss Frances Sweeney, Secretary of the Irish-American Defense Association, condemned the "violent racial hatred" of the Coughlinites and the Christian Front of Boston...
Organized on a national basis to combat fascism, the Defense Association is active in eight important cities, which have a large Irish population. In her speech, Miss Sweeney discussed with particular emphasis the mass meeting addressed by Father Curran last week, a meeting from which she was forcibly ejected...
...Peddie and Pete MacGowan took the one and two matches 3-1 and 8-6 respectively; they won their best ball 4-3. Three man Don Elbel, Dickerman's partner, walloped Sweeney 8-7, and they annexed the best ball 5-4. Gerry Davis and Bill Allis got decisive 7-6 wins at five and six, and ran off with the best ball by the same margin...