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...vigorous support which Catholic priests and lay groups have given the Chicago Newspaper Guild in its strike against the Herald & Examiner and American has been a matter of grave concern to pious Catholic Joseph Vincent Connolly, general manager of all Hearst-papers. Month ago he reportedly made a vain effort to present in person the Hearst case to George William Cardinal Mundelein. Last week, the American began a series of articles on "The Youth Problem" by well-loved Bishop Bernard J. Sheil, founder of the Catholic Youth Organization and ranking Chicago hierarch during Cardinal Mundelein's absence in Rome...
Once again Representative Ralph Clampit lead a vain effort from the floor to push the bill through to the Senate. He was supported by Representative John Vaughan of Belmont who cried that the law is a "wedge in our Constitution into which the moisture will creep, and in no time mildew will rot out our rights and the foundations of our government...
...morning of September 29, 1938, a Benld housewife, Mrs. Carl Crum, was working in her yard. Suddenly she was transfixed by a roar and a crash which led her to think that an airplane had fallen nearby. She peered in vain for smoke, wreckage, damage. Mr. McCain came home later to find that a celestial visitor had made a three-point landing on his property, about 50 feet from where Mrs. Crum was standing...
...year as its president. He worked hard, too, to build up his profitable playing card factory. He invested shrewdly in equities and real estate (his 20,000-acre farm at Mooresburg is one of eastern Tennessee's finest and he makes it pay). He worked hard but in vain to collect a claim for $1,600,000 when he thought he had a case against the Government for some marble-bearing lands flooded by TVA. He also worked hard but also in vain to get nominated last summer to the Senate seat which he got in 1937 by appointment...
...mind of many a famous man lurks the question of what figure he will cut in History. That was the concern of the last bitter years of Napoleon; it worried vain Frederick the Great; it troubled Lincoln. Franklin Roosevelt, who has long had an eye on his own place in history, last week made plans to occupy...