Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once a stocky mountain-climber named Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI is at 77 in good health, except for a slight diabetic condition. In February he celebrated the 13th anniversary of his accession to the Chair of St. Peter. He has thus outreigned his two immediate predecessors, Benedict XV and Pius X, who respectively died after eight and eleven years in the Papacy. But Pius XI must marshal his health for many more years to equal the longevity of two other Popes of the century past, Leo XIII who lived 93 years, died in 1903 after...
Divorced. Mrs. Carolyn Dennett Lockwood who, with her husband and two other U. S. citizens, was imprisoned for eight weeks in Majorca in 1933 after a brawl with a civil guard (TIME, July 24. 1933 et seq.); from Clinton Benedict Lockwood. artist; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty, misconduct...
...pedagogs Chancellor Bowman made an impression which stayed with them through weeks of investigating, months of writing their report. To the final draft of that report the three men last week signed their names: Professor Ralph E. Himstead of Syracuse; Professor James B. Bullitt of North Carolina; Professor Albert Benedict Wolfe of Ohio State. Then they sent a copy to Chancellor Bowman "for factual correction," and with it a letter asking him to keep the report confidential until they should publish it late in March...
...Assistant President." Miner Lewis began by declaring: "Richberg was not only recreant to his obligations as a public servant, but a traitor to organized labor when he made that recommendation. For Richberg, I express my personal contempt !"† Warming to his work, he later called Director Richberg a Benedict Arnold, labeled him as deceitful, treacherous, hypocritical...
...dismiss a case against a minor public works employe charged with pilfering a small amount of lumber and cement. Instead, he put witnesses on the stand, questioned them and then, without a jury, found the employe guilty and fined him $200, saying, "You have become a Judas and Benedict Arnold to your country." This procedure was, according to the Department of Justice, proper under Danish...