Word: tien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...five cardinals-designate had been outfitted in hand-me-downs. Because Vatican tailors, faced with Italy's shortage of silks and gold braid, could outfit only twelve of the 32 new cardinals completely the American archbishops and Bishop Tien drew on the wardrobes of the late Cardinals Mundelein, O'Connell anc Hayes. But the Pope would provide the red hats-a personal gift-as well as the topaz rings that are the badge of office...
Bishop Thomas Tien, cardinal-designate, of Tsingtao, China, and two noncoms from Brooklyn made a striking picture of international amity (see cut) when a troop transport arrived in San Diego from the Far East. The noncoms were going home at last; the bishop was bound for Rome and investiture as China's first cardinal...
Still more significant was the appointment of China's first cardinal, Bishop Thomas Tien of Tsingtao. Born 55 years ago, of Catholic parents, Cardinal-designate Tien was consecrated bishop by the Pope himself in 1939. China's Catholics have risen from one to five million in the last 20 years...
What that U.S. air force has meant to China was indicated in a ballad reprinted last week by the New York Times from Chungking's Central Weekly-titled Ballad of the Eagles, written by Tien Chin, translated by Frank...