Word: townely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mundelein, Ill., late last Sunday afternoon, two cassocked churchmen worked over the draft of a speech. One was Most Rev. Bernard James Sheil, Auxiliary bishop of Chicago, good friend of labor, good friend of youth, founder of the Catholic Youth Organization. The other was the godfather of the town, His Eminence George William Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, great liberal of the Church, great builder and money-raiser for the sprawling archdiocese he had headed for nearly a quarter of a century. The speech over which they worked was to be delivered next evening at a C. Y. O. convention...
...theatre town Milwaukee is underweight; its two barnlike theatres just mosey along. No light chore was it, therefore, when Off-and-On-Broadway Myron C. Pagan tackled Milwaukee's carriage trade last June to back a repertory company. But Fagan got his money, and last month started producing...
...turn Milwaukee's critics booted the play, joked that the town's anti-labor overlords had backed a walleyed nag. Milwaukee's C. I. O. leaders merely sat tight. For them it was enough that To the End of Time was playing to half-empty houses...
...citizens. Businessmen carried radios to their offices, golfers had caddies tote portables along with their clubs. For the Cincinnati Reds ("Our Boys" to baker and banker alike) were in the throes of their first pennant in 20 years and, like an expectant father, the whole town stood nervously by. At Crosley Field, in what oldtime ballplayers used to call a "crucial serious," Our Boys were playing the Cardinals-the swaggering, slugging Gas House Gang from St. Louis...
...Writer Palmer, they planned a short, 100-page pamphlet. But, they explain, "Our civic pride got the best of us. ... So in stead of writing a little, book in a month, our civic pride cost us 15 months." Says Author Henderson privately: "We wrote it in every bar in town except the new ones which have just sprung...