Word: milan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order. That example, however, has been systematically and generally followed only among Roman Catholics. In the 16th Century St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, laid down detailed rules for "retreats" in his Spiritual Exercises, and St. Charles (Cardinal) Borromeo established retreat houses in his archdiocese of Milan. Since the 17th Century annual retreats have been customary and obligatory for all Catholic priests. Since 1882, when a French Jesuit named Pere Henry pioneered among workingmen to revive the custom of attending them, retreats have steadily gained favor among pious laymen...
...Memphis, New Orleans, Dallas, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Torreon. In South America the firm has affiliates in Buenos Aires, Lima, Asuncion, Sao Paulo and Recife. Its Far Eastern offices are in Bombay, Shanghai and Osaka. Its Egyptian branch is in Alexandria, its French branch in Le Havre. In Milan it does business as Lamar Fleming & Co., in Liverpool as D. F. Pennefather & Co. Its representatives are scattered from Goteborg, Sweden, to Barcelona, Spain; from Lodź Poland, to Oporto, Portugal...
When Eugéne Tisserant was only a boy, Giovanni Mercati was making friends with Achille Ratti, then with the Ambrosian Library in Milan. Last week Vatican politicians were reminding newshawks to watch Cardinal Mercati at the conclave which must some day elect a new pope. One reason: new cardinals make good compromise candidates. Cardinal Mercati has been called the most learned prelate to be elevated to the purple in the past century. Succeeding Achille Cardinal Ratti in 1918 as prefect of the Vatican Library, Monsignor Mercati has published in U. S. and European journals many a scholarly article...
...sure of our Anglo-American friendship. Unfortunately it is only too likely we may fight one another in the future. . . . America is not English. The average American when he comes to visit Europe finds himself much more at home in Munich, Berlin, Rotterdam or Milan than London. There is little anti-English feeling in America but there is little pro-English feeling there...
...present old cancer hospital takes care of 325 patients a day, has some 11,000 active cases of cancer on its outpatient rolls. The new hospital will care for twice as many patients a day, will surpass in medical and research facilities the cancer institutions in Rome, Milan and Buenos Aires, which at present are considered the best in the world...