Word: glennon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visited America (in 1936 when he was Vatican Secretary of State), and his pontificate was notable for its strengthened ties with the U.S. Five U.S. cardinals were named during his reign (James Cardinal Mclntyre, Edward Cardinal Mooney, Francis Cardinal Spellman, the late Samuel Cardinal Stritch, the late John Cardinal Glennon). Two close personal friends of Pius XII were Americans-Cardinal Spellman and Boston Tycoon Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...Elevated in 1946: Glennon of St. Louis (who died the next month), Mooney of Detroit, Stritch of Chicago, Spellman of New York...
...Stevenson of Illinois and Senator Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) for the Democratic presidential nomination disagreed as to the "practicality" of their respective candidates winning the party's nod come the July convention. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, extolled the political virtues of Stevenson, while Paul W. Glennon, professor of Law at Northeastern, spoke in favor of Kefauver at a Liberal Union forum last night...
...Glennon stressed the "practical" point that Kefauver is definitely running, and "running well," while Stevenson has reiterated that he will seek re-election to the governorship of Illinois. Of the candidates that presently exist, he's well above the rest, Glennon said, while the Stevenson campaign is like a "closed corporation with a minimum of stockholders...
...Glimpse of Heaven. One morning last week as Palmira sat by the waterfront selling her lupines, three ships dropped anchor in Ancona harbor. On two of them, the U.S. destroyers Glennon and George K. MacKenzie, she wasted no attention, but her heart went out to the black, unkempt hull of the third ship. It was the Soviet freighter Dmitry Pozharsky and from its stern flapped a ragged red flag. With tears in her eyes Palmira called out to her eldest daughter, "Look, Roma, it's come." Then the two scurried off through Ancona's alleyways, routing...