Word: baptisme
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Chicago's Better Business Bureau moved last week to clear its city of a bad public name. Enrolled were 700,000 schoolboys to defend Chicago from its defamers during Boys' Week next month. Exclaimed Superintendent of Schools Bogan: "The present generation of Chicagoans needs a baptism of the pride and loyalty that built the World's Fair in '93 and carried the glories of the city to the far corners of the earth...
...history of swimming as an undergraduate sport at Harvard dates from today, when the magnificent new pool receives its baptism under the fire of an intercollegiate meet...
...court unfrocked the Hindu Pontiff Shankara Racharya and held that all his holy acts are void. One such act was to receive Miss Miller into the Hindu faith as a true convert. Another was to marry her to her ex-Maharaja. A third was to impart a "coconut baptism" to her child...
Copper Tycoon Harry Frank Guggenheim, whom President Hoover sent to Cuba as Ambassador (TIME, Dec. 2), last week had his baptism by diplomatic fire...
...father was a Segura, his mother a Saenz, so they called him (by old Spanish custom) Pedro Segura y Saenz. Little did his parents guess, as they stood beside the font at his baptism some 49 years ago, that their swarthy infant would one day be a great one of the Church. The diocese of Burgos, Spain, saw his birth. Burgos saw him consecrated as its Archbishop. But only a secret consistory of his peers in the Vatican last week saw Pope Pius XI confer on Burgos' Archbishop the red hat of the cardinalate, making him the titular priest...