Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus embittered strikers and embittered employers both determined to fight to a finish. Powerless were Archbishop Hanna and his board appointed by the President. They could "find facts," offer to arbitrate but force no sort of peace. NRA likewise had no power. Said General Johnson in Portland: "The seat of the trouble out here is the fact that, due to cross currents, the shipping industry has no code...
...Manhattan last month began the trial of nine Armenians charged with the Archbishop's murder. All of the defendants admitted that they were members of Tashnag, ultra-nationalist Armenian society which wants to throw off Soviet rule, re-establish the independent Armenian Republic which existed for four months in 1920 after the treaty of Sèvres had freed the land from Turkish tyranny. Witnesses testified that the pro-Soviet Archbishop was as good as dead when, on Armenian Day at Chicago's Century of Progress last summer, he refused to speak until an Armenian Republic flag had been removed from...
...small Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Church last Christmas Eve sat a little band of men who were not there to worship God and His Son to be born on the morrow. Brilliant in churchly regalia, a solemn procession moved up the aisle toward the candle-decked altar. When Archbishop Leon Tourian, tall, grey-bearded primate of his Church in America, drew abreast of them, the men did what they had come for. A double-edged butcher knife flashed once, vanished in the Archbishop's abdomen. (TIME...
...guilty of first-degree manslaughter were Defendants Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. They faced prison sentences up to 20 years. Found guilty of first-degree murder with Death as the penalty were Defendant No. 1 who held the butcher knife, Defendant No. 2 who held the Archbishop...
...century ago, he and a reedy-voiced youngster named John McCormack were altar boys together. He wandered in the ruins of the Clonmacnoise Abbey, just as he had wandered as a moppet, when the spell of the place impelled him to study for the priesthood. Now he was an Archbishop, second youngest in the U. S. It had been no easy job to suceed the late, great Cardinal Gibbons in the Baltimore Archdiocese and Archbishop Curley could not help sensing a difference in public attitude. But he had been an able, aggressive organizer and had built an excellent system...