Word: langs
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...national patriot, Jose Rizal) for jungle counter-sniping at the Japanese. > "Increasingly effective" throughout other parts of the Philippines was the F.F.F. (Fight for Freedom), a secret band whose terrorizing of Japanese, as well as of native traitors and informers, recalled the dreaded KKK (Kataas-tassan Kaga-lang-galang Katipunan ng Bayan) which opposed Spanish rule...
...April 1, the Most Reverend and Rt. Honorable Dr. William Temple, now Lord Archbishop of York, will become Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, in succession to Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang (TIME, Feb. 2). His place at York will be filled by another left-of-center prelate, Dr. Cyril Garbett, now Bishop of Winchester...
...Temple was born to the ecclesiastical purple-his father was Archbishop of Canterbury before him. After a brilliant career at Oxford, topped by a first in classics and the presidency of the Oxford Union (traditional steppingstone for British statesmen but a post also held by Dr. Lang, Temple's predecessor at Canterbury, and Dr. Garbett, his successor at York), he was in quick succession an Oxford don (philosophy) at 23, a headmaster (of Repton) at 28, rector of London's fashionable St. James's Church, Piccadilly and chaplain to the King, a bishop at 39, an archbishop...
...curate in grimy industrial Leeds, young Cosmo Lang slept in a condemned tenement on a board bed only two feet wide, ministered to people even poorer than himself. But promotion came to the shrewd young man: as an Oxford don, vicar of Portsea and, in 1901, Bishop of London's East End diocese of Stepney. In 1908 the Archbishop of York died, and at 44 Lang was appointed Europe's youngest archbishop...
...Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Lang got ?15,000 (peacetime equivalent of $75,000) a year, most of which went in income taxes and upkeep of the vast medieval pile of Lambeth Palace which the Nazis blitzed last year. In his resignation speech the Archbishop referred to his "sudden withdrawal to some obscure place ... to face ... the restraints and inconveniences of very slender means." Leftist papers tartly said they thought his ?1,500 pension was more than that...