Word: domenico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal loans of $450,000 and 90,000,000 lire; he mentioned interest rates as high as 45%. Incredulous, the Pope glanced at the clock which, together with a tall white crucifix and a telephone, was the only ornament on his desk. There was just time to reach Monsignor Domenico Tardini, State Secretary for Extraordinary Affairs, before Tardini's daily siesta. Shown the letter, Tardini raised his eyebrows. "Banking and industry!" he exclaimed. In all his long diplomatic career he had never had anything to do with either. "Very surprising!" he said...
Died. Prince Domenico Napoleone Orsini, 78, Prince Assistant to the Pontifical Throne, highest honorary lay office in the Vatican court, head of one of Rome's top-ranking families; in Rome-twelve days after the death of the head of the Orsinis' historic rivals, Prince Marcantonio Colonna (TIME, March...
...Pontiff postponed a scheduled audience with Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, the Prefect of Propaganda Fide, and received the two Americans at once. They were with him 56 minutes. From the Pope's study on the second floor, Flynn moved to the third-floor office of Monsignor Domenico Tardini, the Vatican's Secretary for Extraordinary Affairs and president of the special Vatican Committee for Russia...
...sweet and final touch only a few hours before the invasion's jump-off, a special flight of Liberators wheeled in over Taormina and dumped heavy demolition and incendiary bombs on the San Domenico hotel, which Allied intelligence had discovered to be the Axis military headquarters. The hotel and the city's nearby telephone and telegraph building were reduced to heaps of smoking rubble, paralyzing the nerve center of the island's defense organization at least temporarily...
...almost followed his family's bent toward the monastery. Composer and pianist, he was trained in Greece and Germany, built the orchestra of the Athens Conservatory, made his first U. S. splash in Boston. He looks somewhat like a figure from a can vas by another great Greek, Domenico Theotocopuli (called El Greco in Spain, where he lived). The Mitropoulitan way of playing music is a bit El Grecoesque: lean, angular, edgy, sometimes distorted...