Word: prefect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five years later, with an equally fine disregard for tyrannical tradition, Rugby's new Head Master Thomas Arnold picked up another ball. He modified the old master-&-boy absolutism into the prefect system of student government. Arnold's innovation soon spread, like the game of Rugby, through the English public (i.e., private) schools...
...save face, Greeks do not like to admit how badly off they are. The young prefect of a district described to me how his town was virtually encircled, how its garrison was outnumbered, how nearby villages were raided nightly, how he was at a total loss to feed and house all the thousands of refugees who had flocked in to the relative safety of the town. He painted a hopeless picture. Finally a British correspondent with me commented that, judging by the way the prefect talked, the guerrillas were winning the battle in this area...
...said the young Greek prefect quite seriously, "another Communist journalist...
Died. Carlo Cardinal Salotti, 77, Bishop of Palestrina; of a liver ailment; in Rome. A Cardinal since 1935, for the past nine years he had been Prefect of the Congregation of Rites (the organization which prepares argumentative evidence for & against the creation of new saints and blesseds). A persuasive orator, he had previously served as Promoter of the Faith ("The Devil's Advocate"), whose role is to argue as persuasively as possible against the candidate for canonization...
Right along, Maniu had seen what was coming. In 1945, when Britain's Sir Archibald Clark Kerr (now Lord Inverchapel) and the U.S.'s Averell Harriman "guaranteed" democratic rights in Rumania, Maniu had asked Harriman: "If the prefect of Constantsa falsifies the election list, will Britain send her fleet? The U.S. mobilize her army?" In 1947 Maniu answered himself: "The prefect of Constantsa did falsify the list. But there was no sign of the British fleet, no sound of American mobilization. Instead the prefect of Constantsa is still in office...