Word: diocletian
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...Price-fixing," he said, ". . . discourages production and stimulates consumption, and the latent inflation may do more damage when it breaks out later than if it had been allowed to run its course in the first place . . . Price-fixing has always failed, from Diocletian* to Truman . . ." Free prices "provide the best method of stimulating production of the things that are really needed, and of restricting consumption of the things that are in short supply." To Leffingwell, frozen wages are no better than frozen prices: they "tend to retard the movement of men from nonessential to essential jobs ... I do not believe...
Trier was founded, as Augusta Treverorum, in 14 B.C. by the Emperor Augustus, became the chief city of the Gallic tribe of Treveri. Because of its strategic location, Diocletian made Augusta Treverorum an important provincial capital. Constantine the Great beautified it. His mother, Empress Saint Helena, presented it with the "Holy Coat" or Seamless Tunic of Christ, which remains to this day the chief treasure of Trier's 4th Century cathedral. On the other hand, Trier is also the birthplace of Karl Marx. The Nazis set up a printing establishment in his house, then Allied bombs destroyed...
...Grand Councilors who voted to oust the Duce last July 24 were tried for their lives. But at the trial in Verona's grim, massive Castel Vecchio, built in 1335 near Diocletian's amphitheater, only six defendants were present. The others were in hiding. The judges were all Italians; no Germans took part. Many believe that the judges had been told to go as far as they liked, since the Duce would suspend the sentences in time...
Kneeling thousands stared hard at two phials on the high altar in Naples' gothic Cathedral. The phials, people had been taught, contained dried blood of St. Januarius, patron saint of the city who died a martyr in the time of Diocletian (245-313). Last Saturday the hard, dark substance was due to turn to liquid, as it does the first Saturday of every May and every Sept. 19 if the outlook for Naples is good...
...pharmacist can tell you that heroine of the Soviet Union, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (TIME, March 2), has a venerable name. Saints Cosmas and Damien are the patron saints of the pharmaceutical [and medical] world. . . . Fact and fancy credit them with many medical miracles. They were victims of the Diocletian persecutions in the 4th Century, and their tomb in Cyrus, Syria, has been venerated as a shrine for centuries...