Word: prefect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val, 64, secretary of the Supreme Congregation of the Holy Office, Prefect of the Congregation of the Reverend Fabric of St. Peter's, Archpriest of the Vatican Basilica, famed (1903-14) as Papal Secretary of State; of heart failure after an appendectomy; in Rome. His death leaves 28 Italian, 29 non-Italian Cardinals. He was born in London where his father (later to be Spanish Ambassador to the Holy See) was attached to the Spanish Legation. On his Protestant mother's side he was of English descent, but, true son of his father...
...Megntzu rumors of the Governors qualms and resolve reached the bandit chief. Wily, he sent banquet invitations to all the Best People in the city of which he had been made Prefect. Megntzu's socialites accepted. For in China, as some-times in Chicago, New York, Florida, bandits notoriously give the best dinners...