Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inonu, leader of the opposition Republicans, was disturbed by the widespread reports that Premier Adnan Menderes was about to order his army into Iraq in the days immediately following the Baghdad revolt. Following the precept laid down by Ataturk, Inonu believes that it must be a cardinal principle of Turkish...
Throughout their country's heartbreaking history of being partitioned, conquered, occupied and finally reduced to a satellite, the Poles have clung tenaciously to the Roman Catholic Church, not only as their faith, but also as the most enduring symbol of their fervent nationalism. Almost the first thing that Communist...
"An Insult." Though the government kept the attack out of the press, the story soon spread. Last week in a letter that was read from every pulpit in his city, the Bishop of Czestochowa denounced the government's action as "an insult to our national sanctuary." That evening 20...
The eleventh of twelve children, Giacomo had little formal training, after the third grade went to work as a stonecutter, house painter, plasterer. He eventually managed to save for a month's trip to Paris, where he spent nights on park benches, days in the Louvre. In 1938 he...
Died. William Oberhardt, 75, charcoal portraitist of distinguished sitters, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Warren G. Harding, Richard M. Nixon. Cardinal Spellman, Bernard Baruch, John Foster Dulles, William Howard Taft, Charles Dana Gibson, Luther Burbank, Thomas A. Edison; of a heart attack; in Pelham, N.Y. "Obie" Oberhardt's...