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- 1 2 "Swift Appoints Mulligan Deputy Supreme Knight". The Boston Globe. May 21, 1949. p. 2. Retrieved February 6, 2018.
- ↑ "K. of C. Directors Reelect All High Officers". The Boston Globe. October 30, 1955. p. 49.