Word: maria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Triumvirs remaining from the original Quadrumvirate are: General Emilio De Bono, Minister of Colonies; General Italo Balbo, Minister of Aviation; Count Cesare Maria De Vecchi, Italian Ambassador to Vatican City...
...failed to kill, Daniel Flores' fusillade wrought damage. One bullet broke the already deeply scarred jaw of President Ortiz Rubio; another carried away part of the right ear and grazed the scalp of his wife, Senñora Ortiz Rubio; another wounded his niece, Señorita Maria Rosh; a fourth grazed Chauffeur Felix Galvan. Flying glass cut the President's secretary, Col. Hernandez Chazaro, and a friend, one Sostenes Garcia. There were two misses...
Approximately 90 Harvard undergraduates were transferred from a subway car into the Brattle Square Police Station's black maria in the Harvard Square car-yard last night, after an alleged wholesale braking of windows, smashing of lights, and pulling of safety signals. After all their names had been registered at the station by Sergeant O'Neill, the men were released...
Last week at Rome, in the Via Monte Zebio, a plump little woman in rusty black clothes stood up to receive the approval of Fascist officialdom, the applause of learned contemporaries, the acclaim of 100 disciples from 21 nations. Dottoressa Maria Montessori had come home, after 16 years, to reinaugurate her Theoretical & Practical Training Course on Child Education, under the auspices of the Italian Government. An honorary member of the Fascist party since 1926, she had been recalled by Il Duce himself, elected by the Ministry of Education to conduct her own new experimental school -the Opera Montessori-after...
...city unchaperoned. Fellow students enjoyed blocking the young woman's path to classrooms and simpering sarcasms in her presence. "A woman of genius might reasonably consider a profession, but surely an ordinary woman shouldn't." "Fool men go in for medicine, why not a fool woman?" But Maria Montessori had the satisfaction of being the first woman to get an M.D. from the University of Rome...