Word: prefect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monday, August 9--Left at 9 a.m. for A. Idea was to meet with sub-prefect on possibility of working for a time in the town on hygiene and health. Meeting supposedly for 10, but sub-prefect busy. Finally received us at a quarter to 12, dashed out ten minutes later because his wife was having a baby. We had to hang around till 3:30 when he returned. (It was a boy.). The meeting accomplished little, except to set the date for another meeting...
...police entered and blew them out. The colonnaded Pantheon was also dark, but brilliant tricolor searchlights cast a V up into the sky. As a military band played civil servant. When the Nazis arrived in Chartres on June 17, 1940, Jean Moulin met them in his full regalia as prefect of the district. His independent spirit soon landed him in prison. After one torture session, during which he refused to sign a document serving Nazi propaganda, he feared that he would not be able to hold out next time, and tried to kill himself by slashing his throat with...
...proletarian overalls casually introduced himself, De Gaulle snapped: "Stand to attention when you are speaking to a superior officer." When De Gaulle finally entered Paris amid jubilant cheers, he was all calculation. "How far have you got with the purge?" were his first words to his newly appointed prefect...
...picture comes to an end, Humphrey Bogart and prefect of police Rains stand facing each other, a Nazi major dead at Bogie's feet. But this time, Rains doesn't turn to his men and say "round up the usual suspects." Four seconds worth of frames had been cut and the film respliced to repair damage, the management explained...
...Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities issued an instruction that would require Catholic universities to get clearance from Rome before awarding honorary degrees. The author of the decree is believed to be Archbishop Dino Staffa, who is the chief assistant to Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo, the congregation's conservative prefect...