Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hungarian Communists would have had no trouble finding a drug suitable for duping Cardinal Mindszenty into making statements against his will, Dr. Otto Krayer, associate professor of Comparative Pharmacology, declared yesterday.
Cocaine and morphine are among the many drugs which the Communists could have used, according to the Medical School expert. Since a dose of these drugs can last seven or eight hours, they would be just as effective in wringing an oral confession from the Cardinal in an open court...
Krayer cautioned that reports of Mindszenty's trial contained no conclusive evidence that he had been doped. Even an eye-witness at the trial could not have told absolutely whether or not the Cardinal was drugged, he added.
Friends of the Cardinal listening to a broadcast of the trial in Vionna reported that a strange tone of voice, frequent lapses of memory, and faulty grammar in Mindszenty's testimony suggested he had been drugged. Krayer observed, howover, that psychological strain could cause the same symptoms.
The part everybody wanted to hear was Earl Torgeson on "how to hit a baseball a long distance, away from the outfielders, at high speed, and with consistency." The erstwhile Earl of Snohomish had a few cardinal rules for hitters.