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Died. Father John William Rockfort Maguire, C. S. V., 57, labor mediator and onetime president of St. Viator College; of a heart attack; in Miami, Fla. Union-wise, unostentatious, Ireland-born Father Maguire settled some 86 strikes in 25 years, was termed by Labor Secretary Frances Perkins "the best trouble shooter Labor...
...Illinois Legislature, to run Chicago's Catholic affairs. Appointed interim head of the archdiocese by its board of consultors, the bishop may serve six months or more, for the Vatican takes its time about filling important posts. Chicago-born, an able pitcher 33 years ago at St. Viator's College, dynamic Bishop Sheil became a diocesan official 15 years ago, has been a bishop for ten. His fame is more than local: in 1930 he founded, and today heads, the Catholic Youth Organization, official body for 7,000,000 Catholic youngsters...
When Bishop James Bernard Sheil of Chicago was a student at St. Viator College, his teacher of sociology and economics was Father John W. R. Maguire. Bishop Sheil is now a potent friend of Chicago Labor, a very present help to C. I. O. in its offensive against meat-packing Armour & Co. (TIME, July 24). Also serving the Lord and Labor in his diocese is his onetime mentor, Father Maguire...
Last week placid, union-wise Father Maguire did a signal service to Labor and to another St. Viator alumnus. Vice President of big Warner Construction Co. is Thomas LeRoy Warner, who studied under Father Maguire over 30 years ago and is still his admiring friend. Last July his company was building Green Mountain Dam and power plant in Colorado for the U. S. Reclamation Bureau when five A. F. of L. unions struck for a closed shop. Deputized vigilantes from nearby towns and farms shot down five pickets, took over the dam site, behaved so raucously that Colorado...
...short, electric character who speaks staccato brogue. Shrewd, kindly, foresighted, he founded the first Catholic Youth Organization in 1930, which has now been accepted as the official organization for all 7,000,000 U. S. Catholic children. Once an able athlete (in 1906 he pitched for St. Viator's College a no-hit, no-run game against Illinois, Big Ten baseball champion that season), he has seen his CYO boys' boxing teams ("The Bishop's K.O. Boys") win the Chicago Golden Gloves tournament every year since...