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...witness was wiry, bespectacled Ignatius D. Taubeneck, history teacher in the Bronxville (N.Y.) High School, who had turned up before a Senate appropriations sub-committee to present an economy petition signed by 2,000 citizens of suburban Westchester County, which borders New York City. Ex-Mayor Frederick C. McLaughlin of White Plains took it from there. Said McLaughlin...
...mihi animas [give me souls]," was the prayer of bearded, stern-faced St. Francis Xavier, greatest missionary of the Roman Catholic Church since Apostolic times. One of the first Jesuits, who helped St. Ignatius Loyola found the order, Francis Xavier journeyed to India .and then to the Far East in his historic quest for converts. On Aug. 15, 1549, the astonished farmers and fishermen of Japan first saw his black-clad figure. For more than two years thereafter, Francis Xavier moved tirelessly among the Japanese, of whom he wrote: "These people are the delight of my soul." He made hundreds...
Said the new Brockhaus (under Military Government license): "Nazi-an endearing term for Ignaz, which in turn represents an abbreviation for Ignatius...
Died. David Ignatius Walsh, 74, hulking Massachusetts politician, longtime favorite of Boston Irish-Catholic Democrats, who kept him in the U.S. Senate for 26 years, twice elected him Governor; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston. A violent Anglophobe (he was known to Capitol Hill wags as "Ireland's Senator"), Isolationist Walsh finally lost his Senate seat in 1946 to Henry Cabot Lodge...
...reads Machiavelli, Ignatius of Loyola, Marx and Hegel; he is cold and unmerciful to mankind, out of a kind of mathematical mercifulness. He is damned always to do what is most repugnant to him: to become a slaughterer in order to abolish slaughtering, to sacrifice lambs in order that no more lambs may be slaughtered, to whip people with knouts so that they may learn not to let themselves be whipped, to strip himself of every scruple in the name of a higher scrupulousness, and to challenge the hatred of mankind because of his love for it-an abstract...