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Died. Joseph A. Warren, 47, of New York, predecessor to New York Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen; at Greenwich, Conn. Longtime friend of Mayor James John Walker, his college mate at St. Francis Xavier College and New York Law School. Mr. Warren was broken in health since he "resigned" last year (TIME, Dec. 24) after failing to solve the still unsolved killing of Gambler Arnold Rothstein...
...affable little man with round rosy cheeks and thin grey hair entered for the first time an unpretentious office in a temporary building on Washing ton's Mall and there seated himself in one of the most thankless swivel chairs in the Government. The little man was Frank Xavier Alexander Eble, called "Alphabet" by his friend because of his four initials. The chair was that of the Commissioner of Customs to which he had just been appointed by President Hoover. The first day in office Commissioner Eble smiled his satisfaction at the progress being made on the Customs Bureau...
...patrol wagon growled up West 18th Street, Manhattan, last week and stopped back of St. Francis Xavier's parochial school. Pupils crowded to the windows and watched patrolmen enter the semi-basement of No. 46, a brownstone house. Soon appeared a dozen agitated women. Some carried infants. Then six more women with strained, angry faces walked out of the door. Policemen with wastepaper baskets full of surgical instruments, rubber devices and index cards in their arms, herded the six women into the patrol wagon. The wagon smelled horribly. The women sat down on its benches. Policemen posted themselves...
...reveals that Dr. Frederic Martin Townsend, Glen Eden's founder-director, was graduated by the University of Michigan and the College of St. Francis Xavier, Manhattan. For a time he was director of the National Park Seminary in Forest Glen, Md., near Washington. Perhaps that is why he affixed a "Glen" to the Poughkeepsie "Eden" which he founded in 1910 and moved to Stamford, Conn, in 1919. Before he founded Glen Eden he conducted parties of summer tourists to Europe. His excuse for circularizing ministers to drum up a clientele was that Glen Eden is to be a "Church...
...discover it, Dr. Francis Xavier Dercum, President of the American Philosophical Society, last week set bravely forth. Assisting him are 41 men, each and every one high on the honor roll of U. S. savants...