Word: tranquillity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accustomed role as the dove of Popular Front peace. After almost two hours' wrangle it was decided to ask Parliament to grant the Cabinet dictatorial powers over French economy and finance for six weeks. Once these had been voted, the Cabinet could then in a more tranquil atmosphere decide what should be done, and do it by decree...
With the installation of Archbishop Martínez-a Mexican-educated friend of President Lázaro Cárdenas and a moderate, law-abiding churchman-Mexico's religious situation remained comparatively tranquil, the long-term outlook became more favorable to the Church than it had been in years. In Vera Cruz, where an unconstitutional statute forbidding any priest to exercise his office is still on the books, Catholics had opened ten churches, were negotiating to install ten priests. Father José Maria Flores, who stirred Vera Cruz Catholics to action when a 14-year-old girl had been...
...CATHOLICS WE ARE APPALLED BY THE SACRIFICE IN PRECIOUS HEALTH THAT THE VIA CRUCIS OF THE MOTHER CHURCH IS COSTING OUR HOLY FATHER. WE HUMBLY SUGGEST HIS HOLINESS CONSIDER RETIRING TO A TRANQUIL LIFE LEAVING HIS ARDUOUS TASK TO AN ENLIGHTENED AMERICAN PRELATE WITH FRESH VIGOR TO CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE FOR CHRISTIAN JUSTICE. YOUR OBEDIENT CHILDREN...
...Keats, five years after her brother's death, was first. She married a Spaniard, one Valentine Llanos, settled in Spain. Fanny Brawne followed suit when she was 33 and her grief for John was 12 years old. As Mrs. Louis Lindon she became the mother of three, a tranquil matron; she lived to a ripe...
Meanwhile great Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, revered "Father of Czechoslovakia" (which is often called "the last European stronghold of genuine Democracy") has retired from its Presidency tranquil in his own mind that the so-called "dictators" of today are in fact a genuine expression in new guise of the popular will-that is of Democracy. Placing the tips of his old fingers together in the quiet of his study at Prague, piercing-eyed, piercing-minded Professor Masaryk-even though the Hitler dictatorship is an ever-present military threat to the Czechoslovak Republic-philosophically points out that the German people...