Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James Henderson Duff, governor of Pennsylvania, is a strapping redhead with the comfortable girth of an archbishop and the piercing eyes of an evangelist. Last week, full of evangelical hellfire, Big Jim proclaimed himself the prophet of a new kind of Pennsylvania Republicanism...
...Interior Vaclav Nosek "discovered" the National Socialist Party's conspiracy against the state, Prague shivered with cold and fright. Truckloads of armed police with brand-new automatic rifles rumbled through the streets. Opposition leaders were arrested and Parliament, scheduled to meet next day, postponed the session indefinitely. Archbishop Beran of Prague was refused permission to pray for peace on the Communist-controlled Prague radio. In the streetcars, which used to be favorite political forums, passengers were silent. President Eduard Benes' executive office announced that the President "asks all citizens to maintain calm." Late into the night dense crowds...
...Angeles got a new archbishop last week. Appointed by the Pope to tend the archdiocese's flock of 600,000 Roman Catholics was New York's tall, lean Coadjutor Archbishop James Francis Aloysius Mclntyre...
...exceptionally able administrator who has long worked as Cardinal Spellman's right hand, the new archbishop began his career at 13 as a runner on the New York Curb Exchange. Though he wanted to become a priest, he stayed in Wall Street to support his ailing father, in 16 years had worked his way up to be office manager of a brokerage house. After his father died, he began studying for the priesthood...
...Said Archbishop Mclntyre last week: "The office of shepherd of a flock is a responsibility of highest dimension. . . . When that sheepfold is the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the responsibility becomes a challenge of magnitude...