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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buffalo's seventh Catholic Bishop, Most Rev. John Aloysius Duffy, 52. A strapping, twinkling-eyed onetime boilermaker who, it is said, still holds a union card, Bishop Duffy taught at Seton Hall College in South Orange, N. J., whence he used to tramp twelve miles weekly to visit his mother in his native Jersey City. He rose to be chancellor, then vicar general of the diocese of Newark, was made Bishop of Syracuse in 1933, transferred to the larger see of Buffalo last January...
...that today the Little Entente is almost on the rocks. This is not only true but appalling to Europeans who have faith in Democracy and to others with a passion to see Communism come. Driving through Belgrade last week, Smartest Little Statesman Benes knew that, as Pertinax said, his visit "bids fair to mark an important turning point in the history of Central Europe." By his mere presence he generated in the Skupshtina (Yugoslav Chamber of Deputies) frantic criticism of Premier Stoyadinovich as a potential wrecker of the Little Entente...
Forty European and U. S. travelers on a world cruise stepped off the S. S. Reliance at Tientsin last week, entrained for Peiping to visit its famed Temple of Heaven. As they drove up to its mellow walls they saw thousands of Chinese crowded before the Temple gabbling excitedly. Soon a knot of Chinese soldiers appeared, piled up packages of drugs worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, set them blazing while the Chinese crowd laughed and cheered and hawkers did roaring business with peanuts and watermelon seeds...
...gone somewhat to pot in Hollywood, having the jitters in a Manhattan sanatorium where his agent (Joseph Sweeney) has placed him because of alcoholic excesses. A shapely young admirer comes in bringing a gift of noodle soup. She turns out to be one Camille Schwartz (Dennie Moore), encouraged to visit Duncan by a stage-struck mother. The actor is charmed by Camille's naive allusions to her simple, bourgeois life, even more fascinated when she deprecates his film appearances but admires his acting on the stage years ago. Having obtained her address, Duncan gets a bottle of whiskey...
During the afternoon, Count Potocki will be shown about the University by Robert P. Blake, Director of the University Library. The party will visit the museums, the laboratories, the Houses, the Law School, and, lastly, Widener Library...