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...Rome, had been preceded last week by a no less significant reminder of how fantastically the world had changed since the Sacred College first met in the 12th Century: two giant planes had brought to Rome the new U.S. cardinals-Archbishops John J. Glennon of St. Louis. Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago, Edward Mooney of Detroit and Francis J. Spellman of New York...
...first time in history prelates flew to Rome to receive the red hat. The air travelers from the U.S.: New York's Francis J. Spellman, Detroit's Edward Mooney, Chicago's Samuel Stritch, 83-year-old John J. Glennon of St. Louis, Bishop Thomas Tien of Tsingtao, China. In a dither of pride, TWA officials billed the flight-three gleaming, four-motored planes, "the most distinguished mass-flight of passengers across the North Atlantic in aviation history...
...flight arrangements were made by Archbishops Spellman and Stritch. They insisted on full fares and routine treatment. But the aerial pilgrimage had its humble touch: the prelates' baggage...
Chicago's balding, scholarly Archbishop Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, N.C.W.C. vice-chairman, gave his apostolic benediction to a high-school group of Christmas carolers, said modestly: "It pleased me greatly that our Holy Father has so signally honored the archdiocese of Chicago. . . . The honor done to my person fills me with overwhelming gratitude." The Cardinal-designate, a builder as well as a scholar, at 58 has behind him. a long record of achievement: Bishop of Toledo at 34, Archbishop of Milwaukee, then of Chicago...
...Archbishops Edward Mooney of Detroit, Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago, Francis J. Spellman of New York, John T. McNicholas of Cincinnati, John Gregory Murray of St. Paul, John J. Mitty of San Francisco, Joseph F. Rummel of New Orleans; Bishops John F. Noll of Fort Wayne, Karl J. Alter of Toledo, James H. Ryan of Omaha...