Word: parish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This hearing was on charges made by seven rebel members of the Orleans Parish Grand Jury against the probity of District Attorney Charles A. Byrne. Mr. Byrne has supposedly been aiding the jury in a probe of the tangled corruption of Parish affairs throughout the State. Meantime pressure was brought-apparently by Earl Long-on Byrne to resign. Said Byrne: "There is no power or influence that can make me resign." Eighteen hours later he resigned, giving the familiar Louisiana excuse of "ill health...
...Cook to his Somerset parish: "In St. Cuthbert's, at least, there will be no war talks from the pulpit...
...employing some 400 men, David Colony is president or vice president, visits each one daily when he is not out selling their product. He is unpopular with his bishop, dignified, 77-year-old Francis Marion Taitt, but says Rector Colony: "There is not a single member of my parish who does not have a job. That is more than a lot of my Main Line friends...
...over the State, plunging into account books like alligators plopping in a bayou, were investigators, Federal. State and parish. They were probing WPA irregularities, PWA irregularities, use of the mails to defraud, income-tax evasion and fraud, defalcations and irregularities in L. S. U. construction, evasions of the Connally "hot oil" law, what happens to the famed 5% deductions from all State employes' paychecks, and everything else they could think...
...parish church in small Konigsbrunn, northwest of Vienna in Germany's Ostmark, the white-&-gold banners of the papacy fluttered in the Sunday morning sunlight. The flags showed that a cardinal was within. In the church sounded the peaceful mutter of the Mass. Outside, a mob of bumpkins grew. As the Mass neared its end, with its "Go, it is finished," shouts came from...