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Peppery little Jean Chiappe, longtime Prefect of Police, was one of the most excited men in all Paris last week. Within seven days he had challenged an enemy to a duel, staged a potent political comeback and got himself elected President of the Municipal Council of Paris, a post equivalent to mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dueling Mayor | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

...Pope'' of the Roman Catholic Church is that most puissant Cardinal in charge of its vast foreign missions-the prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of Faith. Present "Red Pope" is Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, bald, round-faced Roman who from 1922 to 1933 was Apostolic Delegate in Washington, D. C. In pious sorrow last week the Cardinal-Prefect reminded the world that today no less than 6,000,000 people still live in slavery. He called Catholic attention to "the importance of the Church anti-slavery program as enunciated by Pope Leo XIII...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Six Million Slaves | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...Hara of being disinterested in "his university's famed football team in action" is to belie TIME'S boast of accuracy. True, Notre Dame's new president has seen only a very few football games during his several years as the University's Prefect of Religion; but his not seeing more has been motivated by the fine spirit of self-sacrifice that characterizes the man. The real reason for his nonattendance has been that during football games the campus at Notre Dame is always quite barren of students and Father O'Hara has found this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 30, 1934 | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

Father O'Hara did not want the job. Titular vice president and acting president of Notre Dame during President O'Donnell's year of illness, he had already announced that he would rather keep on being the university's prefect of religion. But the Roman Catholic authority which made the choice of a new president so smooth and peaceful rests on unhesitating obedience. Father O'Hara accepted his orders without protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Our Lady's Man | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

...Council, traveling to promote university exchanges. For seven years he was dean of Notre Dame's College of Commerce. But his real job since 1917 has been to be in a community of priests and confessors, the prime guide, philosopher and friend of all Notre Dame students-their prefect of religion. His students think he knows everything and their elders, marveling at his encyclopedic mind, are inclined to agree. Every evening he has spent long hours giving advice on religion, money, careers and love to all young comers. Every morning from 6 to 12 he has heard confessions, given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Our Lady's Man | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

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