Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...massed is Joseph John Shinners, 54, a 6-ft. 4-in., 255-lb. Irish Democrat who was a first-rate rough-&-tumble policeman in Milwaukee's old days, went into the trucking-&-warehouse business in 1912 and since 1932 has been the able sheriff of Milwaukee County. A Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus and father of ten, Candidate Shinners is expected to draw a strong Catholic vote. He is also backed by the American Legion and the Nazi Friends of New Germany. Asked whether it is true that he never got past the fourth grade in school...
...Yves rocked at her moorings. In a hall in Paris a hulking, brown-eyed, brown-bearded Capuchin monk thundered sailor talk at an audience of 500. This week Father Yvon ("Little Yves") was to board the St. Yves, embark on his fourth voyage as chaplain of France's Grand Banks fishing fleet...
...tranquil office the robust, jolly Capuchin renounced for the immensely practical missionary work carried on in the French fishing fleets since 1895 by the Société des Oeuvres de Mer. Father Yvon's calling cards now read: "Address from April 20 to Sept. 15 on the Grand Banks and Greenland...
Thirty years ago the French Grand Banks fleet comprised 12,000 fishermen. It now numbers 4,000, manning 30 steam trawlers which set out last month, 30 schooners which set sail last fortnight. The Church bestows its most solemn blessings on the fleet, with full consciousness that some of the boats may never return from the North Atlantic. Although the death toll diminishes steadily, last year four schooners were lost. Of the seven ships which have successively been sent out by the Société des Oeuvres de Mer, two have foundered...
Husky, brown-robed Father Yvon, 45, thinks of himself as curé of "the world's largest parish," extending across the Atlantic from Brittany to Greenland, thence south to the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. Besides the 4,000 Breton fishermen, his parishioners include 1,500 Portuguese and some Faroe Islanders. Resting last week at the Dinard monastery after a lecture tour in which his Paris appearance was the last of 60, the good curé delayed his departure only in order to fetch the fleet its first batch of mail. Later, with the St. Yves plying between the Banks...