Word: pious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When bespectacled, downright Republican Frank Dwight Fitzgerald upset pious Democrat Frank Murphy in Michigan's gubernatorial election last November, he dealt a sad blow to New Deal pride. After turning out the man who turned him out in 1936, Governor Fitzgerald set about undoing (mainly by budgetary starvation) much of Mr. Murphy's Little New Deal. Last week a prevailing virus gave a new turn to Michigan politics...
...Cardinal could conclude: . . . "Pacelli, qui sibi nomen imposuit Pium Duodecimum." At this news that the new Pope, Eugenic Pacelli, Secretary of State and Cardinal Camerlengo, had taken the name of his predecessor and mentor, the crowd set up a hum and buzz. Then, as excitement gave way to pious fervor, the throng, with apparent spontaneity, burst into a hymn, Christus Vincit...
...saved from a gambler's and drunkard's grave by his mother's prayers. Successful thereafter as an automobile salesman (they called him "Car-a-Day" Cadle), owner of a chain of shoe-repairing shops and fruit juice stands in Indianapolis, he got more pious all the time. In 1921 he built Cadle Tabernacle, a large Spanish-style building, in which he took to preaching...
Very coldly the Princes received this speech. They were no more pleased when II Telegrafo, mouthpiece of Foreign Minister Count Ciano, thumbed down as a "political" Cardinal Secretary of State Pacelli, nominated as a Pastor Angelicas, predicted in old prophecies, the pious Archbishop of Florence, Cardinal dalla Costa. Since as a rule the Roman Catholic Church prefers to lead opinion rather than follow it, Il Telegrafo's nomination could be considered a death-kiss...
...vigorous support which Catholic priests and lay groups have given the Chicago Newspaper Guild in its strike against the Herald & Examiner and American has been a matter of grave concern to pious Catholic Joseph Vincent Connolly, general manager of all Hearst-papers. Month ago he reportedly made a vain effort to present in person the Hearst case to George William Cardinal Mundelein. Last week, the American began a series of articles on "The Youth Problem" by well-loved Bishop Bernard J. Sheil, founder of the Catholic Youth Organization and ranking Chicago hierarch during Cardinal Mundelein's absence in Rome...