Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Archbishop Zepliak, head of the Roman Catholic Church in Russia, convicted and once condemned to death, was released from prison. He will be banished. This action follows strong representations made by the Pope to the Powers...
Died. John T. Gibbons, 86, brother of the late Cardinal Gibbons, onetime Archbishop of Baltimore; in New Orleans...
...Archbishop Hanna of San Francisco (TIME, Dec. 10) was named as the most likely U. S. candidate...
...Chicago's Archbishop died. Delegations of Poles posted hot-haste to Rome to urge one of their good race for the office. Delegations of Germans likewise. Said the Irish: "Give us no foreigners, but an Irishman!" The Pope chose Mundelein. To Chicago he went His position was "difficult." At a welcoming banquet 150 prominent citizens were poisoned by the soup. At the next banquet, the new Archbishop drank the soup first. And ever since he has grown, quietly, in the respect of a strident community. No archdiocese is more efficiently run. Its head has never committed a public blunder...
...Even the Archbishop of Canterbury comprises 59 per cent of water,"--a statement of fact which gives an idea of the humorous touch and the lively style that make the reading of Sir Arthur Shipley's new elementary biology a stimulating exercise. He calls his little book "Life," prefaces his chapters with apt quotations from the poets, and explains with an unusual combination of scientific accuracy and literary flavor all about protoplasm, cells, feeding, the soil and the sap, food, digestion, respiration, movement, and reproduction, in plants and animals...