Word: amleto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SECRET AGENT OF JAPAN-Amleto Vespa-Little, Brown...
...Amleto Vespa was born in Italy, became a secret agent of Chinese War Lord Chang Tso-lin in 1920 and a Chinese citizen in 1924. When the Japanese took over Manchuria, they also took over Amleto Vespa. He was useful to them for his knowledge of the country, and for his status as a European who nevertheless could not claim the protection ''of a European country. According to Amleto Vespa, the Japanese forced him to become their agent by threatening his wife and children. Secret Agent of Japan is his account of his experiences from 1932 until...
...priest. Escorted by Knights of Columbus in cocked hats, the ecclesiastics marched through crowded Detroit streets in what was the year's most showy parade, taking half an hour to pass through the portals of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament. There on a throne sat Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., whose name (pronounced chee-kone-yonny) had become to many an impious Detroiter "Chicken Annie." Three papal bulls were read and Archbishop Mooney knelt in prayer until the Apostolic Delegate led him to the throne, placed a crosier (crook) in his hand...
Quietly a fellow passenger of Bishop Gallagher on the Rex had left for Washington and the official U. S. headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate...
...ornate Cathedral of the Incarnation this week, Most Rev. William Lawrence Adrian, 53, lately an obscure Iowa priest, was to be installed as the seventh Bishop of Tennessee's 32,300 Catholics. Consecrated in Davenport by the august Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Bishop Adrian later recalled how he had learned of his impending elevation : "There among my letters was a communication from the Holy See. With trembling fingers I opened it and read: 'The Holy Father has in mind to choose you Bishop of Nashville.' I was so overwhelmed with...