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...whose territories would include the Vatican properties and one or two remote hill towns. An alternative proposal was that all Roman Catholic churches in Italy should be given status as Papal State territory, thus dotting the land with innumerable but innocuously minute territorial islands. Although Il Duce's assent was never indicated in the case of the latter scheme, he was reputedly withheld from agreeing to the former only by the most persistent objections of the Fascist Grand Council, the one body in Italy which has sufficient political might to impose a modicum of restraint upon Big Brother Benito...
Raymond Rouleau, to be archbishop of Quebec and Cardinal; and asked: "Has anyone anything to say?" The cardinals severally raised their red caps in silent & formal assent...
Pedro Segura y Saenz, to be archbishop of Toledo and Cardinal; and again asked: "Has anyone anything to say?" Again the cardinals severally raised their red caps in silent & formal assent...
...chose" to run for Republican Congresswoman-at-large from Illinois. The male voices which last week boomed Mrs. McCormick's nomination in the primary next spring and her election next autumn, came from the heights and depths of her party. From the depths came a throaty rumble of assent from William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, blatant Mayor of Chicago. From the heights, at a luncheon of the Illinois Republican Women's Clubs, came the staccato bark of Vice President Charles Gates Dawes, who said: "I am for the women. I recognize their sincerity. When it comes to making...
...There", said the authority on the Spanish Empire, pointing toward what would eventually be a forward pass, "there you have a concrete exemplification of the Drang Nach Osten tendency". A polite murmur of assent ran over the professorial assemblage and the blanketed professorial knees quivered in jubilation over the crack. Then a bony forefinger protruded into space and long white curtains floated in the Stadium atmosphere. "Will the gentleman entering the lower Portal of Section 39 kindly remove his hat?" Thousands sat in awe and whispers of "Well played, ... good eye ... bravo" were heard here and there...