Word: successor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church. . . . Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven."* (MATTHEW XVI: 18, 19.) Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, successor to the authority of Peter, brooded last week at 'the Vatican upon what forces he should loose against Plutarco Elias Calles, President of Mexico, arch foe and suppressor of non-Mexican-born clericals of every creed (TIME, August 2, et ante). His Holiness may have reflected that the Roman Catholic Church...
...expenses have mounted. This year's income is reported already expended. What the Vatican's total income is has never been revealed since 1870, when the temporalities were confiscated by Italy. Pius IX (died 1878) left $6,000,000 of income-bearing capital. Of this sum his successor Leo XIII (died 1903) lost some $2,000,000 by poor investments, yet recouped himself by administrative economies. Pius XI's income-producing wealth is more than $7,000,000. But most of the annual income is derived from current donations. Most important is "Peter's pence...
...oracle, Colonel Thompson was a worthy successor of Apollo. His replies had a frank and sonorous ring, implied everything and committed themselves to nothing...
...Cabinet's impending fall was freely predicted, and M. Tardieu was somewhat prematurely touted as M. Caillaux's successor. His record is scarcely inspiring, though he proved himself for many years a useful henchman to M. Clemenceau. His only ministerial experience was gained in 1919-20 when he held with distinction the portfolio of Devastated Regions. As everyone knows, he came to the U. S. in the role of French High Commissioner...
...down three times, and once more in the tenth. The referee, seeing that Garcia was al ready rising on one knee to go in search of further injury, stopped the bout. Lightweight. When Benjamin Leonard, nonpareil of lightweights, retired from the ring at the top of his hour, the successor to his crown proved ultimately to be Rocky Kansas, of Buffalo. This Kansas, whose real name was left behind in some alley of his white boyhood, is a scarred workman, 35 years old, who has devoted approximately two-thirds of his life to the trade of fistic...