Word: birettas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cardinal Pacelli, tall Papal Secretary of State, opened last week the first consecration of a U. S. bishop ever to take place in St. Peter's in Rome. In full pontificals the Cardinal sat solemnly on a faldstool before the altar. Before him, bowing low in the cope, biretta and white stole of a priest, was Monsignor Francis Joseph Spellman, 43, onetime grocer's boy and sandlot baseball player in Whitman, Mass., named last month by the Holy See to be Auxiliary Bishop of Boston (TIME, Aug. 15). In three great tribunes sat the entire Vatican diplomatic corps...
...bodies. Big and solid and sleek, a Stutz car carries Stutz Associate Schwab. Other names for Stutz to conjure with: William E. Dodge Stokes and Frederic de Peyster, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Witherbee Black. Paul Whiteman and Herbert Bayard Swope. Cardinal Dougherty of Phila- delphia wears his red biretta in a Stutz...
...obverse of the 100-lira piece appears a bust of His Holiness Pope Pius XI in profile, wearing the cope and biretta...
Silver 10-lira pieces bearing on the reverse the Virgin Mary, crowned, enthroned and haloed above the legend "Queen of Peace"; on the obverse, Pope Pius XI in mozetta, stole and biretta...