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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British-born Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, appointed by Führer Hitler early this year to head the Foreign Office section dealing with Germans living abroad, branded as traitors all foreign-Germans "who while professing nationalist sympathies at the same time help the opponents of the Third Reich...
Softspoken, studious Francisco Franco Bahamonde is no university man. He was born in Galicia 45 years ago, son of the commandant of the Ferrol naval base. In the tradition of a thoroughly militaristic family, elder Brother Nicolas went into the navy, second son Francisco went into the Infantry Academy at Toledo's Alcazar at the age of 14. In due time youngest brother Ramon Franco went into the aviation service. Shockheaded, wild-eyed Brother Ramon Franco was the first member of the family to make world headlines. In 1926, widely hailed as the "Spanish Lindbergh," he flew non-stop...
...Order was suppressed by the Pope because of secular outcries against it-the black-cassocked fathers and their work in California became unpopular and they were ousted. Their work was taken over by brown-cassocked Franciscans under the leadership of 54-year-old Fray Junipero, who had been born in Majorca, missionized in Mexico, learned the tongue of the Fame Indians and taught at the college of San Fernando...
Smart, alert, pious, neat, athletic, Father Will is also sandy-haired, looks like a Texas ranger. He was born in Wooster, Ohio, studied at a seminary run by Fathers of the Precious Blood, was ordained in 1908 and given a parish in Fort Wayne, Ind., still his home diocese. For a time Father Arnold had the odd task of acting as chaplain for Catholics in the Wallace Circus, in winter quarters at Peru. Ind. In 1913, he applied to the chaplain bishop of his church for an appointment as army chaplain. He was going to try it only...
...Born in Manhattan in 1874, "Jack" Pope was the first student to win a scholarship to the American Academy in Rome founded by the late Charles Follem McKim. Three years in Europe supplied him with wide architectural learning and a love for the grand style. During the rest of his life Pope's imagination soared no further than the symmetries of Greek and Roman architecture. Such was the character of his period...