Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gifts: 1) a painting of Benjamin Franklin (by Joseph Duplessis), which Francophile Franklin had given to a Parisian friend in 1770; 2) a large bronze medal from the city of Metz, commemorating its Allied liberation last November. At another ceremony, General de Gaulle conferred France's Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor on Generals Marshall, Arnold and Somervell, Admirals Leahy and King. While he bussed them, they kept stiff upper lips...
...service, ten points for a dependent (but none for additional dependents). Points required for discharge: enlisted men 44, officers 49, enlisted women 29, women officers 35. About 307,000 became eligible for dis charge; 20,000 more could get out who had won certain awards (Medal of Honor, Navy Cross, Legion of Merit, Silver Star, D.F.C...
...miles east of St. Gregoire d'Iberville, Quebec, 30,000 persons gathered last week to watch Premier Maurice Duplessis unveil a 31-ft. granite cross. It was erected on the site of a log cabin where Alfred Bessette was born in 1846. Before Alfred Bessette died in 1937, he won a worldwide reputation for holiness and miracle-making...
...carpenter's unlettered son, he was a shoemaker and a farm hand before emigrating (as so many French Canadians have done) to the cotton mills of New England. Then, in 1870, he sought to enter the Congregation of the Holy Cross at Montreal. The fathers let him act as porter and unofficial barber of their college, and called him Brother Andre...
...leaving gifts of money. In 1896 the first chapel was built on a plot opposite the college. Later a bigger one was built, still later a third. Today the $6,000,000 Oratory of Saint Joseph is a great, concrete-domed structure topped with a neon-lighted cross that towers over Canada's "City of Churches." Ecclesiastical tribunals are already at work in Montreal, Providence, R.I., Ottawa, and St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, checking evidence and proceeding with the first steps that may lead to Brother Andre's canonization...