Word: motta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four days last week the eleventh U.S. Provincial Eucharistic Congress celebrated the centenary of the Roman Catholic diocese of Buffalo. Among the high ranking prelates from six countries were Peru's Cardinal Guevara and Brazil's Cardinal de Vasconcellos Motta-the first South American Cardinals ever to attend a U.S. Congress. New York's Cardinal Spellman told the Congress: "It is folly for us to deceive ourselves that we are at peace, for in truth we know naught for which we fought has come to fruit. The whole world and every human in it today face...
...dropped its hostility toward him, which had arisen from his opportunist pre-election alliance with the Communists last January. His daughter would be married this week in the Church of the Convent of Mount Carmel by São Paulo's Archbishop, Carlo Carmelo, Cardinal de Vasconcellos Motta...
More oil was poured on a still choppy sea by Brazil's Navy Captain Alvaro Alberto da Motta Silva, who took over the Commission's rotating chairmanship. The Captain-a chemist and a physicist, whose naval duties have left him a lot of time for reading-documented the world's urge for peace by citing a long list of immortals: Descartes ("I think, therefore I am"), Virgil (to whom the Captain erroneously ascribed Horace's phrase on war, "matribus detestata"), Thomas Jefferson ("Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"), Abraham Lincoln ("We cannot escape history"), Epicurus...
...championship bout drew 10,247 customers. Four nights later, Welterweight Walker ("Sugar Ray Robinson") Smith (148½ lbs.) proved that punches speak louder than titles. A crowd of 18,060 jam-packed Madison Square Garden to see chocolate-colored Sugar Ray knock the block off game Middleweight Jake La Motta...
Died. Giuseppe Motta, 69, five-time (1915-20-27-32-37) President of Switzerland, onetime Foreign Minister, Catholic-Conservative party leader, president, in 1924, of the League of Nations Assembly; at Berne...