Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman engage in illicit sex relations . . . [Indictment 1] from Los Angeles to New York" and [Indictment 2] in the other direction. Joan claims that he fathered her four-month-old daughter Carol Ann. The grand jury also accused Chaplin of conspiring with others to influence Beverly Hills Judge Charles Griffin to railroad Joan out of town, to influence her to plead guilty under a vagrancy charge of which she was innocent, to deprive her of her Constitutional rights.* If guilty on all counts, 54-year-old Chaplin could be fined $26,000, spend 23 years in federal prison...
...sermon after being enthroned as Archbishop of Westminster, Monsignor Bernard Griffin, Primate of English Ro-man Catholics, told the international congregation in jampacked Westminster Cathedral that easy divorce, birth control, books and films that sneer at the sanctity of marriage, are all signposts along the road to ruin. Said he: "The decline of a nation has always begun with the disintegration of the family...
Cardinal Kinsley, Britain's only Cardinal and the Archbishop of Westminster, died last winter (TIME, March 29). Last week Pope Pius XII appointed his successor: 44-year-old Monsignor Bernard Griffin, Auxiliary (assistant) Bishop of Birmingham. The little-known prelate will be the leader of England's and Wales's 2,400,000 Roman Catholics. The appointment was also tantamount to telling Mgr. Griffin that he will some day get a Cardinal...
...naming Griffin, who has been a Bishop only five years, His Holiness skipped over 19 other prelates. The Pope was looking ahead: like the Anglican Church's leader, William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Mgr. Griffin is a liberal on social questions. A leader in the progressive Catholic Social Guild, he has backed Sir William Henry Beveridge's postwar Social Security plan: "We need it. We want to get it going as soon as possible...
...Birmingham carpenter who became city councillor and justice of the peace, Mgr. Griffin served in the Royal Naval Air Service in World War I, later became a priest. He was educated in England and Rome. His outstanding work in smoky Birmingham has been guiding the Father Hudson Homes for Children, one of Britain's largest orphanages. Birmingham folk also know the wiry, redheaded clergyman for his street preaching. For years he went every Saturday night to the "Bull Ring" (Birmingham's Hyde Park), where he sturdily traded verbal punches with hecklers...