Word: servant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, rising from a clerkship to be Under Secretary of the Treasury. Daniel Bell helped the New Deal by keeping its books. He neither embraced nor repudiated New Deal measures for controls over business. An impartial appraisal of his philosophy: the complete impartiality of a highly competent public servant...
Ordinarily, no step toward sainthood can be taken until the "Servant of God" in question has been dead at least 50 years. In Francesca Cabrini's case this requirement was waived by direct action of Pope Pius XI; her process started ten years after her death in 1917, giving her one of the quickest canonizations of modern times. (Three others were proclaimed saints at the Vatican ceremonies last week: Jeanne-Elizabeth Bichier des Ages, a French nun who died in 1838; Bernardino Realini, an Italian Jesuit, who died in 1616; John de Britto, Portuguese missionary martyred in India...
...proceed to the Congregation of Rites in Rome, where they are meticulously reviewed, approved by the Pope (in his Christian name, so as not to compromise papal authority) and returned to the diocesan tribunals for a second pleading. Once again the postulators and devil's advocates examine the Servant of God's writings, study her local reputation for saintliness, make sure that no public act of homage, prayer, or religious devotion has ever been paid to the individual under examination. If they and the Congregation of Rites find that the Servant of God was not just an extremely...
...seems to me that you have been making Macedonian cries or yells ever since I have been in the White House. . .. Your unwarranted attacks on Mr. Pauley almost ruined a good public servant. . . . You have made it exceedingly difficult for me to get good men to fill the necessary places in the Government. You are still continuing your Macedonian cries and I hope you will get a lot of pleasure out of them...
...morning this week, just before noon, a servant entered the palace bed room of King Ananda Mahidol, 20-year-old constitutional monarch of Siam, and found the king's lifeless body. There was a bullet wound over his left eye, and a pistol lay at his left side. Courtiers who sniffed foul play remembered that Ananda was right handed. Although he had been thoroughly accustomed to handling firearms, the Siamese police and medical authorities pronounced his death "accidental." While his people grieved and the young queen mother, the Phraratanani Sri Sangwan, lay prostrate, Siam's new parliament...