Word: italianity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Choice of Italian Statesman Wise...
...selection of Pacelli seems to be a very wise one although tradition has been case aside in the choosing of a secretary of state to succeed as Pope. In the first place, the election of an Italian has certain advantages, since it makes for no international animosity as would the selection of a foreigner--especially with conditions so near the boiling point...
...were sorry to see part-Jewish Premier Imredy go were the Jew-hating German Nazis. Premier Imredy, while obliged to jail Hungarian Nazi Leader Major Ferenc Szalasi for seditious activities, nevertheless had proved amenable to Nazi ideas. The Premier last month announced plans to bring Hungary into the German-Italian-Japanese Anti-Comintern Pact. His racial laws were in some respects even sterner than the Nazis' own Nürnberg decrees. And the Premier had planned to suspend Parliament and set up a totalitarian, one-party State with himself as probable Führer, adding one more state...
Conclave. Once kings and nobles, the lower clergy, even the Italian populace, helped elect Popes. In 1180 Pope Alexander III restricted the right to Cardinals alone.* Century later, when Cardinals meeting in Viterbo took nearly three years to elect a Pope, an indignant populace locked them up, deprived them of all food except bread and water. Hence the word conclave, meaning "with...
Transamerica's boss, old Amadeo Peter Giannini, having retorted that it was simply a matter of accounting theory, began fighting SEC with all the wrath his hot Italian blood could generate. In Washington last week, after a month of legal fencing, Lawyer Rogge haled Mr. Giannini's personal secretary to court. She refused to talk. So did three other Giannini intimates. "This is the most outrageous case of contumacy I have ever seen," bellowed Lawyer Rogge, obtaining a recess until March...