Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significantly the Premier spoke of those involved and arrested as "criminals," strictly abstained from hinting that the State had uncovered a political conspiracy. The seized arms were of German, British, Italian manufacture. Some of the arms caches resembled cement pillbox forts, some contained radio equipment, and detectives were tracing private telephone wires they had discovered. Most neutral Paris correspondents agreed with the New York Times that it was too early to guess whether what had been partially uncovered was the makings of a coup d'etat or simply the stock in trade of French smugglers busy catering...
...under Nicholas Patrick Stephen Cardinal Wiseman, the see of Westminster has traditionally been entitled to a cardinal. But Archbishop Hinsley, soon after his appointment to succeed the late Francis Cardinal Bourne in 1935, embarrassed the Church by his statements during the Italo-Ethiopian war. Replying energetically to the anti-Italian attacks of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of Westminster announced that the Pope was powerless to intervene in the war because he was "a helpless old man." For this, Archbishop Hinsley, long-jawed Yorkshireman, was passed over when on two occasions the Pope raised other prelates to the purple...
...Giuseppe Pizzardo, 61, scholar and diplomat, who is secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, head of the Church's bureau of Catholic Action. Once detested by Italy's Fascists because he fought the Pope's battle with them over the matter of educating Italian youth, Monsignor Piz-zardo, like the Pope, is today disposed to collaborate with Fascism. As much as any prelate in the Vatican, he has the Holy Father's ear in business and financial affairs. Last May he was the Pope's legate to the coronation of King George...
...sooner had injured Vittorio returned than Rome picked up its cudgels. Rushing from an interview with II Duce, the editor of ultra-Fascist Il Tevere had his paper on the streets two hours later, condemning Hollywood for threefold intrusion into Italian cinemaffairs: 1) invasion of the market with a product "unsurpassable because of a crushing superiority of means," 2) control of distribution, 3) a threat to enter the theatre field (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's plan for a circuit of its own in Italy). Italy permits Hollywood to take home $1,000,000 profit annually. Since this represents a return...
...device making such a boon to smokers available for the first time. So simple that it seems at first glance a quackery, the gadget has a pedigree weighty enough to soothe all such suspicions. Invented by Aluminum Co. of America, it is endorsed by the Mellon Institute and the Italian Government, and is sold by a corporation headed by Count Giuseppe Cippico...