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...sharp enough to become the partner of William Gibbs McAdoo in California, where Jefty moved in 1925. As a Democrat he was one of the first to climb on the Roosevelt bandwagon in California in 1932. Last month Jefty O'Connor handed Franklin Roosevelt his resignation as titular head of the national bank system, possibly because he plans to run for Governor of California. Last week Jefty dispatched to Congress the 75th annual report of the Comptroller of the Currency - a 208-page booklet summarizing not only the status of U. S. national banks as of last June...
Herbert Hoover is the only living ex-President of the U. S. Alfred Landon is the latest Republican President-reject. As such they are the titular leaders of their party. Unfortunately for their party, however, they have taken such bad political beatings that their prestige is badly battered. And to make matters worse, they last week made manifest how much they are at odds...
...16th birthday. Crown Prince Michael of Rumania was ceremoniously inducted into the Rumanian Army, of which he was titular commander-in-chief years ago when his father, buck-toothed King Carol II, was in exile. Witnesses of the ceremony were Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden and Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia. Among the gifts was a sleek Rolls-Royce sent by the Duke of Kent...
...Spiritual Director of his own North American College. The late Cardinal Gasparri, Papal Secretary of State, met the U. S. priest in preparing a new catechism, was so impressed with his qualities that in 1926 Father Mooney was drafted into the Church's diplomatic service, made a titular archbishop. Archbishop Mooney was appointed Apostolic Delegate first to India, later to Japan-first U. S. prelate ever to be so titled and sent abroad as the Pope's permanent agent...
...deepest end of the lake. There they found jovial, garrulous 83-year-old the Right Rev. Sir David Hunter Blair, Bart. Sir David is more than a British baronet. He is a onetime captain of Scottish militia, an antiquarian, author of five books of memoirs, a Benedictine monk and titular Abbot of Dunfermline. Abbot Sir David has been an Abbot Emeritus of Fort Augustus since 1917, but he has lived on Loch Ness for 50 years, still spends most of his time at the monastery...