Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Sam Breadon, 72, longtime president of the St. Louis Cardinals, who ran his original $200 investment to some $3,000,000 by the time he sold his stock in 1947 after 30 years; of cancer; in St. Louis. Breadon (and onetime associate Branch Rickey) built up the far-flung...
Could he do it? Twenty-three years of tradition rested on his puny bat. Twenty-three runs had yet to be scored, and inexorably the cardinal sun was fleeing from the skies. Littlefellow swung and hit a towering fly ball. Surely this was an out. Here, at last, was the...
U.S., Australia and Bolivia jointly proposed an investigation into the question of human rights in Hungary and Bulgaria, including the trial and sentence of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty.
Nicholas Verven '51 and J. David Baumann '51 carried off the two first prizes of $50 each in the finals of the Boylston Speaking Contest held in Paine Hall last night. Verven gave the Allocution by Pope Plus XII to the Consistory of Cardinals on the arrest of Josef Cardinal...
But in 400-odd years, Jeanne de Valois was never canonized. Her "process," begun in 1775, was delayed first by unusual strictness on the part of the Congregation of Rites, then by the French Revolution (no French bishop dared offend Napoleon by pushing the sainthood of a member of the...