Word: benefactors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort to beat the Roman Catholic bishops of the Dominican Republic into submissive silence. Two months ago, dismayed by personal threats and public incitement against the church, the Dominican bishops informed Trujillo that they wished "to continue cooperating." As a token of capitulation, the dictator demanded the title "Benefactor of the Church," a distinction last conferred on Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa...
...come. First before the court came the lawyer for John H. Chiles Jr., 57, a vice president of Westinghouse, to plead for mercy. His client, said the lawyer, while Chiles bowed his head, was a vestryman of St. John's Episcopal Church in Sharon, Pa. and a benefactor of charities for crippled children and cancer victims. "These men," the lawyer pleaded, "are not grasping, greedy, cutthroat competitors...
Pridefully, Trujillo's radio station La Voz Dominicana reported the letter of capitulation addressed to "the benefactor of the fatherland" by the six bishops: "We are coming to Your Excellency with the wish to continue cooperating. There has been a deterioration in relations that we are the first to deplore. None of us could have suspected the misinterpretation given our pastoral letter. We are the first to condemn such distortions of truth. We do not say that there have been no imprudent acts in the ecclesiastical sphere. We acknowledge them. To this end, we propose 1) to remind...
...Benefactor of the Church? In the exchange of letters that reached the outside world last week, Trujillo tentatively accepted the bishop's truce offer: "We have devoted the most careful consideration to your intention to correct the imprudences which, as you loyally acknowledge, have been committed in the church...
Trujillo's stooge government also sent the bishops a letter containing his bill for ending the persecution: "The circumstances are propitious for you to support the initiative to grant to his Excellency the title of BENEFACTOR OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH." The title was last granted to Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa...