Word: monsignore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next December a National Council, composed of members of both houses of the Austrian Parliament will quietly elect a President. His duties are only by courtesy executive. The acting Chief Executive is the Prime Minister (Monsignor Ignaz Seipel...
...Rector of Louvain University, Monsignor Ladeuze, proposed to Mr. Whitney Warren, the U. S. architect, whose inscription has been rejected, that a bust of Architect Warren shall be placed in the new Library and shall be sportingly inscribed : "Praenobilis Americae filius Warren ingenio cordeque perfecit. (Warren, the most noble son of America, completed [this library] by his genius and heart...
...inscription was finally omitted by order of Monsignor Ladeuze, Rector of Louvain University (TIME, July 9), who caused to be erected first a stone balustrade without inscription which was smashed by his own students, and second an equally inscriptionless plaster of Paris balustrade...
...last splintered fragment fell, Citizen Morren waved his pick at the huge crowd and helplessly irate police below, crying: "Long live Belgium! and France! and America! We Belgians are not all Boches like Monsignor [expectorating] Ladeuze...
Grim, resolute, Monsignor Ladeuze ordered a new balustrade of which about half was rushed into place last week. The expense was understood to have been borne by Rector Ladeuze personally, though his moral support is from U. S. groups headed by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University and having the blessing of Candidate Hoover...