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Los Angeles Times
May 12, 2013

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Msgr. Benjamin Hawkes held the purse strings of an institution with status and influence difficult to imagine today. A constant presence wherever Cardinal Francis McIntyre went.. the press chronicled his every public appearance. Here's a look at some of that coverage.

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( Los Angeles Times archives )

"Inky is the Cardinal's Christmas present from his secretary, the Rev. Benjamin Hawkes Jr., who went to Rome to witness the conferring of the red hat upon the Archbishop of Los Angeles."