Word: benedicte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John Benedict Fehr, 78, custodian of the Latter-Day Saints Tabernacle; in Salt Lake City. For 34 years he proudly demonstrated the Tabernacle's famed acoustics to 30,000,000 visitors by dropping a pin over a balcony railing, whispering scriptural lines until the pin resounded on the floor below...
...yard events will undoubtedly be fertile fields for Crimson harvests this winter. Intercollegiate champion in the 100, and holder of numerous other records, 'Hydroplane' Hutter shouldn't have to paddle through anybody's wash all year. In the 220, he will be ably supported by Ray Benedict and Darle Berizxi...
...Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs at 25. Monsignor Pietro Gasparri, who later became Cardinal and Secretary of State, took an interest in young Pacelli's career, made him a protégé. Pacelli became a minutante or copyist, then undersecretary of the Congregation, then pro-secretary, finally, under Pope Benedict XV, Gasparri's successor...
During the War Monsignor Pacelli was appointed Nuncio at Munich. That nunciature was the channel through which many, an important diplomatic negotiation was carried on between the warring nations. Nuncio Pacelli was entrusted with Benedict XV's famed peace proposals which German liberal politicians seriously considered. Later, in the first of Germany's numerous small putsches, Pacelli was nearly assassinated in the streets of Munich. With the founding of the Weimar Republic he established a nunciature at Berlin, arranged concordats between the Vatican and Bavaria and Prussia before returning to Rome in 1929 to accept a Cardinal...
...proclaimed that Al Smith's popularity would swing several doubtful states into the Republican column. In a local Tammany club on Manhattan's East Side, Sachem Al Smith's picture was taken from the wall because "we don't want the picture of any Benedict Arnold around here...