Word: mauro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mauro Inguanez, Abbey librarian and archivist, visited the U.S. to start a fund-raising organization. He fell ill and his plans have not yet been carried out. *By the Lombards in 580; by the Saracens in 884; by earthquake in 1349; and by the French...
...murder of gentle Senator Mauro Angulo Hernandez put many a Mexican in an eye-for-an-eye mood. To curb such barbarism, cried Supreme Court Justice Luis G. Corona, the death penalty for murder, outlawed in the federal district since 1929, ought to be reestablished. Said the conservative Excelsior. "Society is handcuffed before the criminal, and the prestige of the country demands stronger methods. The [Porfirio] Díaz dictum-catch in the act, kill on the spot-unquestionably yielded better results. ... It is urgently necessary to teach a lesson to potential murderers by means of heavy punishment." Abreast...
...Peace Front will not be confined to workers. "Homestead Committees" and a "Constituent Assembly of the Land" will try to organize farmers and small landowners. Army, police, magistrates, intellectuals must not be left out. Mauro Scoccimarro, ex-Finance Minister, summed up: "Mere control of ordinary state machinery and bourgeois parliamentary institutions is not enough. There must be something outside Parliament and outside the government capable of controlling and directing both...
...Less ductile Communists, who still want to rush to the barricades, are pushed out of the party, many by the "respectable" device of being refused support by the Communist machine in local elections. All the fighting, for the present, will be done on the barricades of bureaucracy. Slovenly, shambling Mauro Scocci-maro, noted for his long, unwashed hair, dirty shirts and doctrinaire stubbornness, holds office as Minister of Finance; but when Premier de Gasperi drops him, Party Boss Togliatti does not even put up a fight. This is no time for unwashed comrades. Togliatti himself sets the fashion of what...
Last week Don Mauro was back in Europe after six months in the U.S., setting afoot a campaign to restore Monte Cassino. Fortnight ago, on the 1,400th anniversary of Saint Benedict's death, Pope Pius XII issued an encyclical commending the study of the saint's life and work, and pleading for the restoration of the abbey. Saint Benedict, the Pope said, had kept alive the flame of religion and culture as "a star in the darkness of night...