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...breeze stayed fresh all the first day & night, the seas quiet. Nobody got sick. Most skippers, leery of the Gulf Stream's northeastward drift, worked up to windward (but the stream carried one boat 210 miles off course). First into the stream was the 54-ft. ketch Malabar XIII, skippered and designed by white-haired John G. Alden. The flat weather gave light-air boats all the breaks; schooners do their best in heavy weather with strong beam and following winds...
Good Works. On March 31, 1889, Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, a tiny, frail nun, daughter of a Lombard farmer, arrived in New York with six' members of the order she had formed, the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Pope Leo XIII had sent her to work among the Italian immigrants who were finding neither a welcome nor prosperity in the New World, and worse, in the eyes of the Church, were losing their faith and piety...
...Lisbon Pretender Don Juan, son of Alfonso XIII, still awaited a summons to Madrid. He was in touch with the Caudillo's brother Nicolás, Spain's ambassador to Portugal. But the Caudillo had blown hot & cold on Don Juan. Falangists gibed at his British naval training, called him "the little British sailor in the service of Communism...
...XIII, however, was not unwilling to learn about Americanism. He took back his ban on Catholic participation in the first strong U.S. trade-union movement, the Knights of Labor, after Cardinal Gibbons pointed out that: 1) U.S. unions were not infected with anticlericalism; and 2) the papal ban would only drive Catholic workers out of the Church...
...XIII's encyclical, Rerum Novarum, 1891, is often cited now by U.S. labor leaders as part of labor's charter of rights. -Each cardinal is nominal pastor of one of Rome's 70 oldest churches, a tradition dating back to the early Church, in which the cardinals were simply the parish priests of Rome...