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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pope at Home . . . (Reading time 21 minutes 40 seconds)''-had he been given an opportunity to survey the proof-sheets of an article published under this heading in last week's issue of Liberty, nickel weekly, Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, the 260th successor to St. Peter, Bishop of Rome, might well have been somewhat astonished. He would have found, impudently set forth, only trite commonplaces about himself. The only little known fact concerned his predecessor, Pius X, namely that the "undergarments" of the late Pontiff "were badly worn out and patched in many places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Pope at Rome | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...heard the call. President Frank Johnson Goodnow, 69, resigned, giving the trustees of Johns Hopkins until July 1, 1929 to find a successor. Said he: "A younger man should be president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Idler Goodnow | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...resignation of Assistant Secretary of War MacNider was "strategic" because his successor, Col. Charles Burton Robbins (see col. 3), is a Hooverite from Lowdenized Iowa?Charles Dewey Hilles, hitherto anti-Hooverish national vice chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...grievance. Andorra is a tiny, ancient principality between France and Spain of which the two "Suzerains and Princes" are the Bishop of Urgel, (Spain) and the President of France. Although M. le President must often carelessly forget that he is a "Suzerain," it was as Prince of Andorra and successor to the authority of the Kings of France, that Gaston Doumergue received the hillmen last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rankling Abuse | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

Those who have the cause of church unity at heart cannot help expressing profound regret at the encyclical, no matter how much it was to be expected; for the friendly and understanding attitude of such outstanding Romanists as Cardinal Mercier and his successor, who since the war have been periodically conferring with certain Angelicans on the subject of unity, have led us to hope that Rome was about to abandon its medieval intransigence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOUBTS INFALLIBILITY OF RECENT ENCYCLICAL | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

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