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Vastly different from these labors have been those of Los Angeles' new Arch bishop. Last week's promotion signalized the phenomenal increase of Catholic population in the Los Angeles area since Churchman Cantwell was installed as Bishop in 1917. It also rewarded him for distinguished moral service to his Church. Having his diocesan offices in Los Angeles' busy Petroleum Securities Building where he rubbed elbows with bankers, brokers and cinemagnates, Archbishop Cantwell used to try to persuade the latter to keep salaciousness out of their films, finally decided that the only way to move them...
...French Administrator Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, laid out the site of New Orleans "in the form of a parallelogram, 4,000 feet long by 1,800 feet deep" and set a crew of convicts to work building the city. The area he marked off now constitutes the Vieux Carré, the old French Quarter of New Orleans, some 165 acres of picturesque wickedness, romantic associations, narrow streets and old Spanish dwellings, bounded by the Mississippi River, and Canal, Esplanade and Rampart Streets. It has been successively favored as a home for convicts, aristocrats, thieves and prostitutes, Italian...
...kicking team to be down the field on top of the receiver when the ball reaches him. Other advantages of the new system are that it reduces the number of yards linemen on the kicking team have to run and theoretically it boxes the receiver into a smaller area...
Long years of experience have taught this denisenry that sudden death results from capture within the confines of Soldiers Field. But no fence however constructed could keep them off the enclosed area across North Harvard Street, while a large corps of managers, maintenance men, etc, would be necessary to chase them away as often as they appeared...
...Sayre. Assistant Secretary of State, and Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law; Dr. T. Z. Koo. a leader of Christian youth activities in China. The eleven Bishops of the Team included Episcopal Archbishop Cecil C. Quainton of Victoria, B. C., Methodist Bishop Ralph Spalding Cushman of the Denver area. Episcopal Bishop James Edward Freeman of Washington. A Team member who was to preach in Pittsburgh last week was Manhattan's Presbyterian Dr. Edmund Bigelow Chaffee. Minister of famed Labor Temple and editor of the Presbyterian Tribune. Three days before, he dropped dead at the University of Minnesota while...