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Sandy-haired Emmett McLoughlin was born down by the railroad tracks in Sacramento. His Irish father & mother hoped he would become a priest. Emmett went from parochial school to seminary and was ordained priest in the Franciscan Order in 1933. The next year, he was assigned to Phoenix, Ariz...
Soon young Father McLoughlin began to be almost as well-known in Phoenix as the mayor. He organized a slum clearance campaign and wangled federal funds for three major housing projects. He started a church for poor people in a vacant store. Then he began to crusade for a hospital for the poor. He persuaded Mrs. Roosevelt to make a special trip to Phoenix on behalf of the project, and in 1943 the 232-bed St. Monica's Hospital was built, at a cost of more than $500,000. Father McLoughlin served as superintendent. He was also chairman...
Steel for Henry. When Henry Kaiser fell out with Cyrus Eaton, his Kaiser-Frazer Corp. lost its big supplier of steel, Eaton's Portsmouth (Ohio) Steel Corp. To plug the gap, K-F last week paid some $3.6 million for the Phoenixville (Pa.) plant of the Phoenix-Apollo Steel Co., which has a capacity of around 26,000 tons a month of finished and semi-finished steel...
...Road to Rome" will be the first professional play to be staged to benefit the Annex 70th Anniversary Fund. Last year, Radcliffe's Idler Players turned over to the Fund its first-night earnings from the double production of "Lord Byron's Love Letter," and "A Phoenix Too Frequent...
...Angeles company was manufacturing a brassiere for cows. A canvas affair, constructed with four elongated sacks which cradle a cow's teats, it was invented by a Phoenix, Ariz. psychiatrist. He confidently estimated that it would increase bossy's production from 25 to 35% by aiding the flow of milk into her udder...