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Another cause for unrest in the Chicago underworld was a special grand jury's investigation of thuggeries committed during Chicago's recent primary election. Last week the jury indicted 24 men, including State Senator James B. Leonardo and one Martin Klass, a nephew of the City Collector...
Roman Catholics, that the husband of the new chairman of the board of directors of the Girl Scouts of America, was last fortnight invested by Pius XI with the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great (TIME, June...
...civil and military virtues of the subjects of the Papal States. But now, when the Papal domain is only a patch of land at Rome, the knightly requirements have been loosed by the Popes and made applicable to all the adherents of their spiritual hegemony. Nicholas Frederic Brady, Grand Cross Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great does not become, by the investiture, a citizen of the Pope's Roman temporal state. He remains a good U. S. citizen, appropriately rewarded spiritually for his great charities to Roman Catholic institutions, for his great courtesies to Roman Catholic...
...active religious order for Portuguese knights and preserved today only as a titular papal honor. Though no U. S. personage holds the cross of this order, others honored with it include onetime (1919-22) President Dr. Epitacio Pessoa of Brazil and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, Consort of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg (TIME, April...
...Order of St. Sylvester, reputedly the oldest and once most prized honor, of which there are no U. S. holders. In 1926 Pius XI created His Excellency the Hon. Charles Dunbar Burgess King, President of the Negro Republic of Liberia, Knight Grand Cross of the Order...