Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Delegate Testa will do his best to have at least three holy places-Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth-internationalized and placed under U.N. mandate. Contact man with U.N. for the negotiations will be New York's Cardinal Archbishop Spellman. Once the Palestine question is settled, say Vatican officials, a gradual extension of Cardinal Spellman's U.N. middle-maneuvering "is not unlikely...
Thundered the Archbishop of Lyon: "This abominable dance kills virtue, and gives rein to every appetite." At an Atlanta, Ga. Bible conference, Dr. Campbell Morgan declared that the tango was a reversion to the ape. A New York doctor announced a new disease, the tango foot. In Paris, the Argentine ambassador added his censure. "The tango," said he, "is a dance peculiar to the houses of ill fame in Buenos Aires and is never cultivated at respectable gatherings...
High up in the mountains of the Peloponnesus, Kalavryta (the name means "beautiful springs") was once razed in Roman times. The Romans used it as a watering place; so, later, did the Franks and Turks. In 1821 Archbishop Germanos, of Kalavryta's ancient monastery, began the Greek War of Independence (against the Turks) by raising the Cross at Kalavryta...
...fortress. Last week he reached outside the capital and put one of his men in command of a government battalion which was moving against the rebels from coastal Playa Dominical. His forces had control of United Fruit banana plantations on the Pacific Coast, and were burning and looting. When Archbishop Victor Manuel Sanabria crossed the lines to bring a compromise proposal to the rebels, it was Communist Mora who furnished him protection...
...Robbed: Archbishop Francis Patrick Keough of Baltimore. Out of his house vanished some $1,250 worth of silverware which had belonged to the late James Cardinal Gibbons and bore the Cardinal's coat of arms and initials. Presently police found the swag in a bushel basket in a church, and a chauffeur pleaded guilty...