Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hats for the Red-dominated part of Europe, Pius showed again that he knew exactly what he was doing. Poland's courageous, 78-year-old Archbishop Adam S. Sapieha had shared his people's sufferings and welcomed the Red Army. Hungary's new Primate, Archbishop Joseph Mindszenthy, had been imprisoned by the Nazis...
...York's plump, tireless, globetrotting, auctorial* Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman learned of his elevation on the eve of going home to his father's for Christmas in Whitman, Mass. Asked if his appointment made this his happiest homecoming, he said: "The happiest was the day I came home ordained after five years away and said Mass for my father and mother." The onetime grocer's boy and champion horseshoe pitcher, now the able and beloved shepherd of Catholicism's richest archdiocese, is one of Pius XII's closest friends, served under him in Rome...
...fourth American Cardinal-designate, Irish-born, 83-year-old Archbishop John Joseph Glennon of St. Louis, is a great builder and money-raiser. Consecrated bishop in 1896, he is also dean of U.S. Catholic archbishops. He received the first news of his elevation before Sunday breakfast, when a local radio station phoned him. Then messages came from his old friends Baseball Fan Jim Farley and Archbishop Spellman, finally official notification from. Apostolic Delegate Cicognani. When he was sure, Cardinal-designate Glennon spoke like a loyal St. Louisan: "The Holy Father didn't forget St. Louis. . . . Our Catholic people show...
...talk between the world and his wife showed, Joseph Stalin was the most feared man of 1945. By his followers in every country he was also the most admired. But he did not dominate the year. And he ended it amidst rumors of ill health, amidst mounting speculation whether his successor would be Diplomat Molotov or Soldier Zhukov...
...good friend, Congressman Carl Vinson, into frenzied cries that it smacked "of the Kaiser, of Hitler and of Japanese militarism." The President's plan, with the notable addition of the three assistant secretaries for land, sea and air, was the same plan presented by Lieut. General Joseph Lawton ("Lightning") Collins* (TIME...