Word: romanized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vatican City last week there were holy stirrings, preparatory to the Holy Year which His Holiness Pope Pius XI is to inaugurate next fortnight. Six Roman Catholic prelates learned last month that they were to be raised to the cardinalate. Two of them set out at once from Canada and the U. S. But none was officially apprised of the fact until last week, when Pius XI held the first secret consistory of the Sacred College since June...
...this emergency the 24-year-old Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England took counsel with his Roman Catholic advisers and his devout mother, the Baroness Herries. His Grace was advised that he could invoke an Act of Parliament making it illegal to fly the ancient flag of Scotland. Promptly he invoked the said Act last week, then retired into his usual aristocratic silence...
...Roosevelt nomination before the Chicago convention. The presence of three nominal Republicans who bolted Hoover gave it a vague semblance of coalition. Conservatives dominated 2-to-1. Three members were drawn from the Senate, none from the House. Counting the President, Episcopalians tied 3-to-3 with Presbyterians, Roman Catholics and Methodists evened off at two apiece. New York got three jobs, the South three, the Midwest two, the West two. For the first time in history a woman was to sit at the Cabinet table, but she was placed at its foot...
Married. Margaret Whigham, daughter of Board Chairman George Hay Whigham of Celanese Corp. of America ; and Charles Sweeney, onetime U. S. captain of the Oxford golf team; in London's huge Brompton Oratory (Roman Catholic...
Coal-black, naked, a young African Negress converted to Christianity by a female missionary sets out through the jungle to look for God. She meets the God of Genesis, the God of Job, Ecclesiastes. Micah, Pavlov, a Roman soldier, Christ, St. Peter and a procession of churches, a caravan of intellectuals, Mohammed, an imagemaker, Voltaire, and finally Shaw. Naive but nobody's fool, the black girl questions everyone she meets but finds no satisfactory answers. The Gods of Genesis and Job enrage her and she attacks them with her knobkerry (that and a Bible are her only impedimenta). Christ...