Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Easter Week was the execution of 5 leaders, the sentencing of 75 revolters to penal servitude, the imprisonment of 23, the internment of 1,841. Later, in London, the best known of the Easter Week conspirators, Sir Roger Casement, died on the gallows, despite the pleas of Pope Benedict XV and the U. S. Senate. British civil servant turned Irish patriot, Sir Roger had been arrested on the Irish coast only a few hours after landing from a German submarine. His trial was in the glorious tradition; before a British judge and jury he argued Ireland's case against...
Last week Mrs. Brown won her suit, tried without a jury before Justice Benedict D. Dineen in New York Supreme Court. It was the first time a court had upheld anyone's right to withdraw from the "Heavenly Treasure." Now all Mrs. Brown had to do was collect-from a man whose property has always been held in the names of his followers. Previously, Justice Dineen had denied Mrs. Brown's motion to have the Father's holdings declared the property of the Father Divine Peace Mission, or be put in receivership. (When he heard this proposal...
...announcing the gift, Benedict Fitzgerald, President of the Society said it was given by a "friend." The donation was accepted by Charles Francis Adams in behalf of President Conant...
Year and a half ago, during summer vacation, she tripped into the office of the San Jose Mercury. Its editor was soon amazed to find himself sending cool Joanne Benedict (she drops the Betty professionally) out to interview celebrities from the teen-age angle...
Presently a San Jose radio station was surprised to find itself giving little Miss Benedict children's parts in radio plays...