Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made an archbishop of Most Rev. Joseph Schrembs, for nearly 18 years the well-beloved bishop of Cleveland, who next June celebrates his 50th anniversary as a priest...
Died. Sir Basil Home Thomson, 77, onetime Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard), onetime bigwig in the British secret service; suddenly; in London. Sir Basil dearly loved to read & write detective stories, led an adventuresome life himself. Son of a late Archbishop of York, he was successively a rancher in Iowa, Prime Minister of Tonga (Friendly Islands), Governor of Great Britain's famed Dartmoor Prison. Highspot of his career; tracking down Mata Hari, whom he described as a dowdy, middle-aged woman devoid of charm...
Cardinal Pacelli, The Colleges of the Sacred Curia, 15 U. S. Archbishops, 25 Bishops of Ireland, 244 Chicago pastors, 600-odd curates and nuns of Chicago; more than 1,500 top AFL, CIO, and independent union leaders; F. D. R. and Eleanor, Bernard Shaw, Warden Lawes, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Stalin, Marion Davies, Lord Tweedsmuir, The Anglican Archbishop of Canter bury, de Valera, Harry Bridges, James Joyce, Mayors Kelly, Hague and LaGuardia, Robert M. Hutchins, the Sure Shot Exterminating...
Election. Extraordinary in nearly every way was the election of Pius XII. He was the first Secretary of State to be elected since the office took its present form, more than a century ago; the first Cardinal of the Curia (as distinct from an Archbishop) in a century; the first Roman in two centuries; the first Pope to be elected on voting day, and the second to be elected in only three ballots. For this multiple breaking of precedent there were several reasons. Cardinal Camerlengo Pacelli had been known to hope that the conclave would be short, to show...
...traveler, onetime president of Chicago's potent Crane Co. (plumbing), onetime (1920-21) U. S. Minister to China; of pneumonia; in Palm Springs, Calif. At the age of 20, Charles Crane decided to travel "seriously," spent three months following on foot the arduous trails in a book called Archbishop Grey's Walks in Canton. He made it his business and pleasure to have a finger in every interesting pie, became fast friends with Chiang Kaishek, Thomas Masaryk, Ibn Saud. At a critical moment in Czecho-Slovakia's history he supplied Masaryk with the necessary funds to become...