Word: corrigans
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While Howard Hughes's great ship was being tuned and stocked at Floyd Bennett Field fortnight ago (see above), a thin broth of a lad named Corrigan poked down out of the air at neighboring Roosevelt Field in a 1929 Curtiss-Robin monoplane with an old Wright J-6 motor that could turn up only 95 miles an hour. By modern standards the ship was a crate, but in it, with nothing to fly by but a compass, a bit of a map and the beam in his eye, 31-year-old Douglas P. Corrigan of Los Angeles...
...Archbishop Michael Augustine Corrigan of Manhattan this sounded like Socialism, antithetical to Catholicism. He ordered Dr. McGlynn to cease his talk, then suspended him, finally removed him from his parish. Dr. McGlynn. the Sogarth Aroon or "good priest" to his tremendous Irish Catholic following, continued to speak as he pleased, helped found and became first president of the Anti-Poverty Society...
Edward McGlynn died in 1900, in Newburgh, N. Y. where he had served as pastor for five years. To his funeral went Archbishop Corrigan, Newburgh's Jewish rabbi and all its Protestant ministers...
...good offices" to mediate. This offer both little states promptly accepted, slimming chances of any clash. Onetime Nicaraguan President José Maria Moncada denied he had said on the radio that he was going to lead an army against Honduras. Briskly U. S. Minister to Panama Francis Patrick Corrigan hurried from his home in Cleveland, Ohio, to Washington. D. C. to accept the role of chief mediator...
...gold, they agree to run away from home together to carry the news to Lloyd's. Nelson breaks the pact to go to sea as a midshipman on his uncle's man-o'-war. Blake goes alone to London, where a chimney sweep (D'Arcy Corrigan) directs him to Lloyd's coffee house. The news he brings gets him the friendship of Insurance Broker John Julius Angerstein (Sir Guy Standing), a foothold in the ring of marine underwriters...