Word: milan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spied the figure of a short bespectacled young man on the cutter Hudson below. "Oh, Junior! Junior!" he cried. "Hello, pop. How are you doing?" came the robust-voiced reply. Thus the Samuel Insulls met last week for the first time since they parted nearly two years ago in Milan. As the younger man climbed up the ship's side, his father rushed forward, embraced him. Senior Insull, trembling with excitement, turned to his fellow passengers and said: "Gentlemen, my brother-I mean, my son." Photographers began to take pictures from the tugs below. Father and son posed readily...
Next day was inaugurated one of the high spots in the Fascist public works project, an elevenmile double-track railway tunnel through the Etruscan Appennines between Bologna and Florence which will cut seven hours from the run between Naples and Milan. Because work on the tunnel was first started 20 years ago, it was inaugurated not by Benito Mussolini but by little King Vittorio Emmanuele III, who stopped in his private car at the tunnel's mouth to dedicate a fountain to the memory of 98 workmen who lost their lives while the tunnel was building...
...friend what Pius XI did last week. As he was borne into vast St. Peter's on Easter Sunday to take his place upon the great throne, the Holy Father's thoughts could hark back to the 1880's when he was a young priest in Milan named Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti. In nearby Turin an old priest named Giovanni Melchior Bosco was already famed for his good works among Italian youth. The two met, were friends until Don Bosco died in 1888.* Thereafter Achille Ratti rose in the Church as Vatican Librarian, Apostolic Visitor to Poland...
...orchestral accompaniment. To assist at this mass with Pius XI as celebrant, 70,000 people jampacked St. Peter's. Among them were the King & Queen of Siam, the Crown Prince of Italy, 20 other European princes, and delegations led by Alfred Ildefonse Cardinal Schuster of Milan and Augusto Cardinal Hlond of Poland. Rain pelted down during the canonization but the sun appeared afterward as the Holy Father mounted the balcony facing St. Peter's square, gave his blessing urbi et orbi to Rome and the world...
...Paris' Notre Dame, Rome's St. Peter's and Santa Croce and a monastery at Reichenau, Germany each claim large fragments. The Three Nails, according to Catholic authorities, are represented today by some 30 enshrined at Rome, Venice, Aix-la-Chapelle, Madrid, Trier, Nuremberg, Prague, Paris, Milan and Monza. A lance thought to be the one with which Longinus, Roman centurion, pierced Christ's side while he hung on the cross, is preserved at St. Peter's. Unduplicated anywhere outside of St. Peter's is Veronica's veil on which Christ wiped...