Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...green, blue and gold-bordered reception salon of the Government Palace, the Archbishop of Paraguay administered the oath of office in the presence of 150 uniformed and full-dressed witnesses. President Morinigo, in a red & blue uniform with the red, white & blue band of office across his breast, read a speech which established continental solidarity, internal totalism and progress as the program of his regime. He led the procession (thoroughly guarded) to the Cathedral for Mass, returned to the Palace for a popular reception...
...Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman lost his wallet. It was found in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, returned with its money to his office. Next day, although the finders' recollections of its contents had been revised upward from $500 to "nearly $700," the archbishop said that there had really been only $30 in the wallet. To reporters who wondered how he had continued his travels without money, he told no secrets...
...Archbishop Pacelli* concluded a Concordat with Bavaria. Franz Ritter von Epp's forces had overthrown the Soviet, and a police spy named Adolf Hitler was scooping in revolutionary circles for the new government...
Cardinal Pacelli got out of this dilemma by having his great friend, Monsignor (now New York's Archbishop) Francis Spellman, hustle copies of the encyclical to France by plane. But the incident made a deep impression on Pacelli. Soon he had equipped the Vatican with a short-wave radio station ("for research and propaganda"), a new electric powerhouse, a fleet of modern automobiles (gifts of the manufacturers) to replace the old carriages, electric elevators, 800 telephones (the Pope's telephone is solid gold stamped with the Papal Arms and the trade-mark of International Telephone & Telegraph...
...Eight years earlier Benedict XV had made Pacelli Titular Archbishop of Sardes (an ancient See in Asia Minor...