Word: prefect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weekdays, permission to leave the building during the early evening must be obtained from the corridor prefect. For permission to leave the campus during the evening, the student must go to the dean...
Died. Luigi Cardinal Lavitrano, 76, prefect of the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of the Affairs of Religious,* onetime (1929-45) Archbishop of Palermo (Sicily) ; in Marino, Italy...
...city's trams. One group burst into the office of Mayor Antonio Greppi (a right-wing Socialist), demanded that he address a mass meeting in the Piazza del Duomo, as he had done on a similar occasion in 1947. At that moment the phone rang. It was the prefect of Milan, sternly reminding the mayor of the ban on public assemblies. When Greppi told the Red delegation, "No meeting is authorized," he was vilified as a "coward and traitor." As they left, the comrades spat angrily on the city hall stairs. They were equally frustrated when they tried...