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...months ago the titular head of the Republican Party, Herbert Hoover, not daring to risk defeat in his home state, but bent on having at least a strong voice in the convention, rallied a few potent cronies of the State's Republican machine and entered a delegation of convention candidates in California's primaries. Nominally pledged to Republican State Chairman Earl Warren, the delegation was well understood to be "uninstructed." In opposition to it, William Randolph Hearst put forward a delegation pledged to Alf M. Landon. Few days later he was joined by lightweight Governor Frank Merriam...
Died. Most Rev. James Anthony Walsh, 69, Titular Bishop of Siene, co-founder and Superior General of the Maryknoll Fathers (Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America); of pneumonia: at Maryknoll, Ossining...
...Hoover showed on Saturday that much of the power of the Republican Party still depends on him. Although the latest salve against the New Deal contains nothing different from the usual offerings of sound money, economy, and freedom form government interference, his newly-found eloquence and his position as titular head of the party combine to make him the man from whom, until June at least, the Democrats have most to fear. If the stigma of responsibility for the depression did not disqualify him as a candidate, the former president would now be well in the lead...
...titular leader of U. S. Progressive Education settled himself in the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washington last week and prepared to dispense the blessings of his faith to 81,000 young Amerindians. President Willard Walcott Beatty of the Progressive Education Association was fresh from the rich New York City suburb of Bronxville, where he superintended a model school system operating at an annual cost of $233 per student. His appointment as Director of Indian Education indicated a new attempt to develop some sort of education to which Indians will respond. When the U. S. Government first turned from shooting...
...Catholic university as a glorified seminary, he instituted nursing courses, a School of Social Work, expanded the Graduate School to admit 800 students, the University to enroll 3,000 men & women. He upped the University's income 60 ft. For these achievements Pope Pius XI made him a titular bishop (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933). Catholic University did not surrender Bishop Ryan gladly...