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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Witnesses' pontiff is rawboned, militant "Judge" Joseph Frederick Rutherford, 70, who in 1896 accompanied William Jennings Bryan on his first Presidential campaign, who in 1930 startled the U. S. by deeding a California house, garage and two automobiles, in perpetuity, to await the reappearance on earth of King David, Gedeon, Barak. Samson and other Biblical worthies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Witnesses Examined | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...motioned him up, restrained him from kissing the Ring of the Fisherman. At the head of the stairs, the Queen and Royal Princesses knelt, kissed the ring. Moving in meticulously arranged procession through the palace, the party ended up in the throne room, where for half an hour the Pontiff and royal family conversed alone. Then the Court entered and Pius XII made an address. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Pope to Quirinal | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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