Word: bari
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highest official quarters the pact of Eagle & Lion was said to have been supplemented by a verbal "gentlemen's understanding," not strictly binding, but to the effect that London and Rome anticipate: 1) cessation by the extremely powerful Italian radio station at Bari of its anti-British broadcasts in the languages of the Near East; 2) disintegration of the British ''Mediterranean accords" with France, Yugoslavia. Turkey and Greece, made at the time of Sanctions and considered by II Duce as menacing Italy; 3) easy going by Italy from now on in the Spanish Civil War, and even...
...York's board was only partly right. The original of Santa Claus was St. Nicholas of Myra, in Lycia, Asia Minor, of whom little is known save that he was a 4th Century bishop. In the 11th Century, Italians of Bari stole his body, built a basilica about it, attributed to the saint many a miracle. St. Nicholas became the patron of Russia, Greece, the Kingdom of Naples, Sicily, Lorraine, Limerick, of children, pawnbrokers, mariners, coopers, brewers. Children came to expect secret gifts from St. Nicholas on the eve of his feast (Dec. 6). This far from notable bishop...
When Benito Mussolini marched on Rome, the only first-rate ports on the whole Adriatic (back seam of Italy's boot) were Venice and Trieste. In recent years the Fascist Government has spent millions of lire building another great new port at the medieval town of Bari, with elaborate warehouses, tracks, and a model town, to serve North Africa and the East...
Traffic at Bari has not kept pace with the development. Last week II Duce went down to Bari to open the town's newest publicity scheme, a great Levantine Fair with buildings and side shows put up by foreign governments...
...Below Bari, on Italy's instep, is the naval base of Taranto. There 50,000 people were waiting for Il Duce to hear what he had to say next. He was still remembering Caesar...