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Died. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, 70, retired president of California's Mills College (1916-43), outstanding Dante scholar (editor and translator: The Monarchia of Dante Alighieri), first woman moderator of a major U.S. church (Unitarian Churches of America, 1940-42); after long illness; in Palo Alto, Calif...
...reward, Mike Scat got the garbage contract-a circumstance which provided money for him, jobs for his constituents. Mike knew how to take care of his people. Among other things he organized the Dante Alighieri Society, which provided social evenings and entertainment. For a few years before Pearl Harbor, Mike Scat's favorite entertainment was a show in which one of the actors did a takeoff of Haile Selassie...
Head recruiter for the Balilla in the U. S., charged Mr. Valenti, is one Professor Mario Giani, U. S. director of the Dante Alighieri Society, Government-supported Italian cultural and propaganda agency. Mr. Giani, whose office is in the headquarters of the Italian consulate in Manhattan, has as assistant recruiters, according to Mr. Valenti, Italian consuls, teachers in some U. S. colleges and public schools, pro-Fascist Catholic priests...
...Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was a poet, a Catholic and a Florentine. So is Biographer Papini: without that happy concatenation of coincidence, says he, a full understanding of Dante is impossible. But anybody can at least partly understand the few known facts about him. Though of gentle birth, his father was a moneylender. Like every upstanding Florentine Dante was an active citizen, fought for his town against Arezzo and Pisa. In the battle of Campaldino he admitted that "he experienced great fear." When the political pendulum swung the other way Dante was first banished from Florence, later condemned to death...
Announcement has been made of the Award of the prizes offered by the Societa Nazionale Dante Alighieri of Boston are Otto Gambacorta '35 and Anthony J. DeVito 1G as the two students who have most distinguished themselves this year in their study of Italian and by promoting here the interests of Italian culture...