Word: patriarchates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever to serve in the U.S. Senate, spent his 95th birthday sorting through stacks of greeting cards, gifts of German beer and vintage Rhine wines for his well-stocked cellar. Then, after a brief celebration with old friends, the venerable Green dictated a congratulatory birthday telegram to another Democratic patriarch: Arizona's Carl Hayden, 85, the oldest man now serving in the Senate...
...church no matter who was Pope. As it happens, many of the new directions within Catholicism are either tolerated or openly encouraged by the smiling old man who patently enjoys his many-titled job of Bishop of Rome, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Primate of Italy, Patriarch of the West, and, as 260th successor of St. Peter, Vicar of Jesus Christ on Earth...
Ironically, the Pope who convened Vatican I, Pius IX, had hopes that other churches would attend the council. But Protestant leaders publicly rejected his summons to the council, and the Patriarch of Constantinople returned the invitation unopened...
...Dillon bill. This is the bill of the distinguished Senator from Oklahoma, the very able uncrowned King of the Senate, Rob ert S. Kerr." Snarled Lines. Bob Kerr, second-ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee, took over the floor management of the bill after Chairman Harry Byrd. patriarch of Democratic conservatism, objected to the revenue loss involved in its 7% in come tax credit for industries that invest in new machinery. In eight days of slashing, sarcastic debate. Kerr beat off every significant attempt to alter the bill. In a hopeless snarl of party lines, such Democratic liberals as Illinois...
...claim that his union was discriminating against its Negro and Puerto Rican members was too much for David Dubinsky, 70, president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union for the past three decades, and white-haired patriarch of New York's Liberal Party. Before a House subcommittee investigating the charge of racism against the I.L.G.W.U., Dubinsky admitted that proportionately few of the 100,000 Negro and Puerto Rican members of his 450,000-man union have become part of the hierarchy. He explained that they were still gaining necessary experience at lower levels...