Word: monaghan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked the Lord to remember him in Heaven. In the U. S., Dismas was a much-neglected saint until the late Dempster MacMurphy, business manager of the Chicago Daily News, took him up, wrote an annual piece about him (TIME, March 6). Last Sunday Most Rev. Francis J. Monaghan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ogdensburg, N. Y., laid the cornerstone of the first U. S. church dedicated to Dismas. Its location: inside the north gate of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N. Y. Prisoners are building the church with stone from the prison quarry...
...other hand, The Green Fool, the autobiography of a sort of Irish Jesse Stuart, is one of the most plum-Irish volumes in a month of Sundays. Born in Mucker (corrupted Gaelic for "good pig-raising place"), County Monaghan, Patrick Kavanagh was "a bit of a lazybones, a bit of a liar and a bit of a rogue." He quit school at 12, worked on farms, joined the Irish Republican Army, learned poaching and desultory banditry, went to all the weddings, wakes, funerals, became highly learned in Mucker legend, superstitions, gossip, cunning...
...enrolled last week, will be the encyclicals on labor by Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius XI. The school will uphold the right to strike, condemn violence and class warfare, have as instructors Rev. John P. Boland, chairman of New York State's Labor Relations Board. Rev. John Monaghan of Cathedral College, and Bernard J. O'Connell, Manhattan attorney...
...trial in Somerset, Pa. last month went a State policeman who had helped to make Frank Monaghan confess. A husky. 25-year-old six-footer, Trooper Stacey Gunderman readily admitted that he had picked up the suspect, hurled him to the concrete floor, jumped on him-but only in self defense, after the old man had attacked...
Stunned sat the district attorney, his assistant, a county detective, a onetime county detective, Uniontown's night Chief of Police and another State trooper-all under indictment as participants in Frank Monaghan's murder...