Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jersey Republicans smiled with satisfaction at this exchange of Ambassadors and Senators, felt they were making a fine bargain. They spoke appreciatively of David Baird Jr., the man appointed last fortnight to be Senator ad interim (TIME, Dec. 2), who will step down for Mr. Morrow as his father before him once stepped down for Mr. Edge...
Tillir Ruminer dared not tell the sheriff what she knew. One of the attackers threatened to kill her, whipped her father and mother, carried away her brother as a hostage...
...quiet study in the Paris Latin Quarter not far from the grey, ornate pile of the Church of Saint Sulpice, newsgatherers waited last week for Father Jean Verdier, a modest little priest who for years has guided the thoughts and prepared the minds of hundreds of young women preparing to take the veil at the novitiate school of St. Sulpice...
...gentlemen," said Father Verdier as he entered, clasping his hands in front of the sash of his soutane, "I scarcely know what to say to you, except that I have never placed my ambition so high as this! I would have greatly preferred to continue my work in the school. However I accept gratefully the orders of the Holy Father, and I will do all in my power to fill this high office worthily...
...truly a breathtaking rise. From the quiet school, Pope Pius XI had jumped Father Verdier over the heads of innumerable Bishops, made him Archbishop of Paris. Soon he was to be hatted a Prince of the Church and put in charge of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame...