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...government, each time patiently rebuilding a coalition. He has given Italy seven years of continuous government, making him the longest-lived Premier in Western Europe. He has held together a sprawling aggregation of land-starved peasants and big landowners, Catholic trade unionists and stand-pat industrialists-clustered under the Lombard Cross of his Christian Democratic Party. He has staved off the largest Red party this side of the Iron Curtain...
Between 75 and 100 professors and business representatives discussed case reports and demonstrations under steering committee chairman George F. Lombard, associate professor of Human Relations...
...American taxpayer justified in his current grumbling about taxes? Shouldn't he agree with the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who said: "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society"?* Or with the late Movie Star Carole Lombard, who made $465,000 in 1937, paid state and federal taxes of $397,000, and just loved to do it? Said Carole: "The Government spent it on improvements to the country, and I really think I got my money's worth...
Verdi: I Lombard! (Aldo Bertocci, tenor; Mario Petri, bass-baritone; Miriam Pirazzini, mezzo-soprano; Maria Vitale, soprano; Gustavo Gallo, tenor; Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Manno Wolf-Ferrari conducting; 6 sides LP). Verdi's fourth opera (1843) is a violent story of love and religion in the 11th Century...
...Lombard village cobbler, young "Beppo" Sarto was as bright as he was poor, but he never lost his humility. Even when he was a fledgling country priest, his powerful sermons attracted attention beyond his own parish. He was raised to be a monsignor, then Bishop of Mantua, in 1893 Cardinal Patriarch of Venice. He made a point of giving away everything that he had. In his will he wrote: "I was born poor, I have lived poor, and I wish to die poor...