Word: rectorate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to the rescue of Toledo and lifted the famed siege of the Alcazar (TIME, Sept. 28). Last week Generalissimo & President Franco was in Salamanca when news of the Italo-German recognition came and with him rejoiced Spain's No. 1 Philosopher, famed Miguel de Unamuno, Rector of the University of Salamanca. With the whole city celebrating, anyone who looked like an Italian or a German was hoisted shoulder-high by Salamancans who in lisping Spanish did their best to sing the Italian Fascist anthem Giovinezza and the German Nazi Horst Wessel Lied...
Three years ago Rector William Casper Munds of the Church of the Good Shepherd invited Rabbi Sidney Wolf of Temple Bethel to join him in a union Thanksgiving service, with the Episcopal church decorated by its women's Guild and the Jewish Sisterhood of the Temple, Episcopalians and Jews acting as ushers, the day's offering to go to the needy of both congregations, and the sermon to be preached by the rabbi. His subject this week: "True Brotherly Love...
Down an Episcopal church aisle in Corpus Christi, Tex. this week was to march a Jewish rabbi bearing a Menorah or seven-branched temple candelabrum. An Episcopal rector was to read from the Reformed Jewish prayer book. The rabbi in turn was to pronounce the solemn syllables of the King James version of the New Testament. Cheek by jowl in the church pews would sit Episcopalians and Jews of the only U. S. town named for the sacred Body of Christ...
Unamuno, Stalin & Mussolini. Since Spain's best-known intellectual is the great Unamuno,it was heartening to the White cause this week that Premier Largo Caballero and his Valencians were arraigned as follows by Philosopher Mieuel de Unamuno, Rector of the University of Salamanca : "The University, while not mixing in politics because of its spiritual mission extending through centuries of tradition, feels itself in duty bound to express in a virile manner its condemnation of the crimes of the [Caballero] Loyalists of Spain...
...centre last month, and elevated Bishop John Joseph Cantwell to be archbishop, San Diego became a separate diocese (TIME, Oct. 5). Last week the Holy Father made known his choice for bishop of that see: a tall, husky, affable priest named Very Rev. Charles Francis Buddy, 49, rector of St. Joseph's Cathedral in St. Joseph...