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Died. Dr. Francis Xavier Dercum, 74, president of the American Philosophical Society (oldest U. S. scientific association, founded in 1727 by Benjamin Franklin), discoverer of the painful fatty disease adiposis dolorosa, an eminent neurologist; of heart disease; in Philadelphia, as he was sitting in Franklin's "ladder-chair"* and about to open the Society's most ambitious program, a survey, by three dozen speakers, of the current world...
With 12,000 jobs at his disposal Mayor Cermak began the distribution of patronage by making his personal physician, Dr. Hugh O. Jones, Acting Health Commissioner. Next he appointed Francis Xavier Busch to be Corporation Counsel, a position Mr. Busch held under Democratic Mayor Dever. Counsel Busch, considered one of the best trial lawyers in Chicago, was last year president of Chicago's Bar Association...
Next candidates for North American sainthood are Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, and Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton of New York, foundress of the Sisters of Charity...
What new evidence had convinced the Treasury that Soviet convicts worked the Soviet spruce forests, U. S. Commissioner of Customs Frank Xavier Alexander Eble refused to reveal. Unable to investigate conditions for itself the Treasury had obviously accepted as substantial proof affidavits from independent observers, labor camp refugees, casual visitors. Under the Treasury's order an importer can bring in Soviet lumber and pulpwood only if he establishes by a preponderance of evidence that these commodities are produced by free labor-an almost impossible requirement...
...mail fraud charge. It was with suddenness, after hearing another suspected judge testify secretly, that a special county jury indicted Mr. Ewald, including also his wife as the person who allegedly passed $10,000 to Tammany's agent. The judgeship resigned was that of Francis Xavier McQuade, whose part-ownership of and executive position with the New York "Giants" (baseball team) was considered prejudicial. Fresh on the inquisitorial pan, with hot fires of publicity making them hop, were three more judges-Amedeo A. Bertini, Louis B. Brodsky, Abraham Rosenbluth- all suspected of contaminating Justice with Money. Prosecutors. First...