Word: solemnization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco, last week candles gleamed, incense rose hazily. Auxiliary Bishop Stephen Joseph Donahue of New York celebrated solemn pontifical mass. In heavy cope and towering mitre, Bishop John Joseph Cantwell of Los Angeles and San Diego approached a wiry, bespectacled prelate, wearing no cope but kneeling with mitre in hand. Over the head of the kneeler Bishop Cantwell slipped a white wool band decorated with black crosses-a pallium. Thus invested with the sacred symbol which signifies that he shares the supreme pastoral power of His Holiness Pius XI, San Francisco's new Archbishop...
...home, the Fair judged Iowa's humanity. Counties sent their candidates for healthiest boy and girl, and parents from all over the State vied with each other for the healthiest baby. When the infants had been run through the medical mill like cars in straight-line production, a solemn-eyed tot named Jimmy Miller Huntley of Ames emerged as the grand champion sweepstakes winner with a health score...
...belligerent ships except at their own risk. The Senate, in effect, was issuing a "must" order to the President. That night, gravely dismayed, President Roosevelt summoned Secretary of State Hull, Assistant Secretary of State R. Walton Moore, Chairman Sam D. McReynolds of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to a solemn White House conference. Siding with the President and State Department for a "may" embargo, House Chairman McReynolds entered the White House bristling with defiance of the Senate. "They can't jam unsatisfactory neutrality legislation down my throat," he shouted...
...even stronger language the Bullitt note declared that the Roosevelt Administration "anticipates the most serious consequences if the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is unwilling or unable to take appropriate measures to prevent further disregard of the solemn pledge given by it. . . ." Finally came the threat that if violations continue "the development of friendly relations between the Russian and American peoples will inevitably be precluded...
...Power of Trinity who had given it to him "as a token of exceptional friendship.'' The watch was wasted, Frenchmen opined, noted with fresh shrugs that the new colony of U. S. correspondents at Addis Ababa gathered around His Imperial Majesty last week and joined in a solemn toast to Peace drunk in weak...