Word: prefect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hired whose sole job was handling Joanovici's calls to world capitals. His monthly phone bill ran to 600,000 francs; he spent 30,000 francs daily on entertaining; he contributed heavily to local sports and charities and was on the best of terms with everyone, from the prefect to the policeman assigned to guard...
...missionary movement makes him one of the most potent and important men in the Vatican. Last week the Pope conferred a further honor on Cardinal Agagianian-naming him to the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, most important of the Holy See's twelve administrative bodies, whose prefect is the Pope himself...
...over Brigadier General Jacques Massu's paratroopers, could not be responsible for their actions if De Gaulle was not called to power soon. In France itself, pro-Gaullist "Committees of Public Safety" had sprung up in more than 100 towns, and when Interior Minister Jules Moch telephoned provincial prefects to find out what they were doing to suppress the committees, many a prefect was inexplicably unavailable. Most shattering of all had been the upshot of Moch's efforts to put down the Corsican uprising. In defiance of a direct order, France's air force failed to provide...
...Paris streets loudspeakers rasped out the orders of tough Maurice Papon, recently brought from Algeria to become police prefect of Paris: "Use your clubs! Use your clubs!" His men complied. In the Place de la Concorde a mob of 6,000 right-wingers led by burly ex-Poujadist Jean-Marie Le Pen -sporting the tricolor sash of a Deputy and the green beret of his old paratroop regiment -came face to face with rifle-toting police drawn up in columns four deep. For a time the mob hesitated. Then, with cries of "Algeria is French!" and "Throw the Deputies into...
...history," said Samuel Alphonso Cardinal Stritch, "has an American prelate been appointed to such high office." He was referring to himself. From Rome last week came news that Pope Pius XII had appointed him proprefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. Under the aged (85) prefect, Pietro Fumasoni Cardinal Biondi 70-year-old Cardinal Stritch will head the church's entire missionary effort...