Word: milan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toward the close of a meeting of the New England Council in Boston some weeks ago, up rose big, bald, beaked Milan A. Dickinson. He asked to speak, not as chairman of the Council's New Hampshire division, but as chairman of that State's press-badgered Recess Tax Commission which had tried and failed to introduce a State income tax. Said he, looking wickedly at the press table: "Nearly every paper in our State has preached as a cure-all for many of our ills-Economy. . . . Now I want to offer them the opportunity of doing some...
Obediently Gabriel descends, speedily decides that Editor Benito Mussolini of Il Popolo d'Italia in Milan is The Man, confers with him in his newspaper office. After modest remonstrance Editor Mussolini accepts the Divine mission. On March 23, 1919 he founds, under the Archangel Gabriel's personal supervision, the first Fascio di Combattimento...
Brother Arnaldo Mussolini, editor of the family newsorgan Il Popolo d'ltalia of Milan, had Italians guessing last week at what he meant by this cryptic statement...
...distinctive attributes of mind-scholarliness, intellectuality, intelligence. The doctorates he holds in philosophy, theology and canon law he earned. When he attended the Lombard College at Rome, he and his comrade Alessandro Lualdi (later cardinal) were rated the most brilliant. Because he reorganized the Ambrosian Library in Milan and made it really useful to scholars, his friend King Vittorio Emanuele made him a Knight of the Outer of Saints Maurice & Lazarus.† His Significance. In the long list of Popes, Pius IX (1846-78) ranked as a great dogmatist. Far more important than the loss of the Papal States were...
...Pope. But of course they would not. The late debonair Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val was seriously discussed as the Able Man. So too were a few others. But the preponderant choice after seven ballots, as everyone now knows, was Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan...