Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first Secretary of State to leave Italy since Cardinal Consalvi went to Paris in 1801 to wangle a concordat out of Napoleon. Good reason had Pius XI in sending his good Pacelli across the Atlantic. Fortnight hence (Oct. 10) in Buenos Aires opens the 32nd International Eucharistic Congress, at which thousands of Catholics and scores of bishops and archbishops will join in a variety of pious acts centering around the great theme of the Eucharist. Of all the cities in which such congresses have been held, only London and Chicago are larger than Nuestra Ciudad de la Santisima Trinidad, Puerto...
...soldiers Napoleon was Mon Empereur. Last week Adolf Hitler, having seized the powers but not the title of President (TIME, Aug. 13), caused Defense Minister General Werner von Blomberg to issue a significant order...
Just 15 hours after Socialist Gerl was hanged, Chancellor Dollfuss summoned a Cabinet council in Vienna's big white Ballhaus, the historic Chancellery of Prince Metternich in which Napoleon's Europe was carved up by the Congress of 1815. Routine matters were dealt with and Minister of Education Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg had slipped off with one or two other Ministers to an early lunch. Suddenly a breathless secretary rushed in with a slip of paper which he handed to the little Chancellor and strapping Major Emil Fey, Commissar for Emergency Measures for Defense of the State. "Action against...
Died. Francois Coty (Joseph Marie Francois Spotuno), 60, perfumer ("Chypre," "L'Origan," "Rose de Jacqueminot" etc.), onetime newspaper publisher; of pneumonia; in Louveciennes, France. Like Napoleon, to whom he claimed distant kinship, he was born in Ajaccio, Corsica. He built a small perfumer's shop, in which a brother-in-law gave him a job, into an internationally known organization. He published ten French newspapers, including Le Figaro, of which the most successful was L'Ami du Peuple which sold for two sous when other Paris newspapers cost five. In 1929 he lost half his fortune, then estimated...
Directed by Edwin Carewe. Are We Civilised? is' stuffed to dullness with words. Farnum's harangue is illustrated with scraps of old historical films, mob and battle scenes, newsreel shots, flashes of prehistoric animals. Moses. Buddha. Confucius, Caesar, Christ. Mohammed, Columbus, Washington, Napoleon, Lincoln...