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...School Forum elected officers for the coming year last night. They are: Raymond P. De Member '48, 3L, president; Louis Del Duca 2L, secretary; Robert Oppenhelmer 2L, first vice-president; Richard Myren 2L, second vice-president; and Sidney D. Rosoff 2L, treasurer...
...able, and Boston's William Cardinal O'Connell sent him to Rome's North American College, where young Americans of exceptional promise are given the Church's most careful training. He developed a scholarly flair, impressed a tall, eloquent professor of theology named Borgongini-Duca. Spellman too was impressed: when he returned to the U.S. as a priest in 1916, he translated two of his master's books of devotions...
...started in as a youth when, on the steps of the local court, he killed the prefect of Jassy. His biggest job came in 1933 when he plotted, but did not take part in, the assassination of Premier Ion Duca. Three of those who pulled their triggers at Premier Duca were among the dead 14 last week. Tried several times, incarcerated fewer times, Leader Codreanu's defense was invariably superpatriotism. Until recently Rumanian law prescribed no death penalty. Well might a Fascist leader, at a time when Fascism was fast engulfing Eastern Europe, look upon a jail sentence...
...trial No. 2 for Codreanu followed the 1933 murder of Premier Ion Duca. Arrested as an accomplice, Codreanu denied any part in the assassination, but later, having been acquitted, bragged publicly that Iron Guard members had drawn lots to choose the assassin. Meanwhile, scores of students, policemen, professors, politicians became victims of Iron Guard terrorism. Last year one of his lieutenants, Jon Stelescu, left him, founded his own party, the Rumanian Crusaders. Shortly afterward, Apostate Stelescu was stabbed and shot to death. In a "heads-shall-roll" list discovered by Rumanian police, Stelescu's party had placed...
...Pope's apartment, placed upon a candlelit table. Vested in rose garments, Pius XI prayed over the Rose, incensed it, poured balsam and musk into a tiny cup in its centre. The Golden Rose will be presented to Italy's Queen after Easter by Monsignor Borgongini Duca, Papal Nuncio to Italy...