Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early one morning Chile's National Symphony Orchestra played the great funeral march from Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony. The black, copper coffin was placed upon a gun carriage and draped with the single-starred banner of the Republic. Then the cortege moved to Santiago Cathedral, where Archbishop Jose Maria Caro celebrated a two-hour Solemn High Mass for the soul of the man who had fixed low prices for the bread upon which millions of Chileans chiefly depend...
Catholics struck hard last week at Greta Garbo's new film, Two-Faced Woman.* The Legion of Decency condemned it as "immoral and indecent," and Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman of New York had his pastors tell their Sunday congregations that it is "an occasion of sin and . . .dangerous to public morals." Other bishops followed suit, and censors in strongly Catholic Boston and Providence banned...
...Beginnings," murmured the Venetian, "there have been so many. But nothing ever comes from over there-but trouble and appeals for money."-Willa Gather, Death Comes for the Archbishop...
...amused at the rococo atmosphere of his suite. "First," he points out wryly, "they wanted to give me a suite all done up in pink and green satin, but I said 'No, I'd feel like a kept woman.' Now I feel like the Archbishop of Canterbury." At his informal suppers at the hotel, Tommy Hart always entertains some of the local socialite Filipinos. He deplores the Navy's social inbreeding, feels that much of the "Philippine problem" is due to the sniffy attitude taken by whites toward their little brown brothers...
Some people in Detroit last week showed that they considered Lord Halifax as American as Wendell Willkie. They threw eggs and tomatoes at him. The Ambassador, winding up a two-day inspection of Detroit's factories, was diplomatically calling on Detroit's Archbishop Edward Mooney. Twenty-five women were parading with placards (Remember the burning of the Capitol in the War of 1812) before the Archbishop's office. Pickets from an organization called The American Mothers had greeted Lord Halifax when he arrived in Detroit. This time there was also a loud maternal booing. A barrage...