Word: popolo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, struggling to control her voice, Mama Canali introduced a bigger name into the trial, that of the pudgy, would-be respectable leader of Italian Communism himself. Said she: "When Palmiro Togliatti came to Como, I saw him in the Piazza del Popolo. 'I am Neri's mother,' I said to him. 'My son worked hard for the party. What became of him?' 'Be calm,' answered Togliatti. 'Your son will be rehabilitated...
Surprisingly, many businessmen applauded the expansion since it will be financed largely by private capital. Said Rome's IL Popolo last week: "I.R.I, now fills an irreplaceable function in the nation's economic life...
Suslov was already en route from Moscow to Rome when Italian Interior Minister Fernando Tambroni announced that Suslov would not be admitted to Italy. "The ministry." explained the official Demo-Christian newspaper Il Popolo, "wishes to avoid demonstrations of dislike or perhaps of open hostility to Suslov's person...
...Vatican officials discovered a new racket flourishing under the noses of the Swiss Guards: forged tickets to papal audiences. Normally issued free by the chief chamberlain, the forged tickets omitted the stamped-on word Gratis, were sold for a pretty tourist penny. Commented the official Demo-Christian newspaper Il Popolo: "This activity is more than illegal. It is ignoble...
Parnassus in the Vatican. Agostino Chigi, the Rockefeller to 16th century Rome, was a firm believer in astrology (a pagan holdover), yet pious too. The meaning of the decorations he ordered for his burial chapel in Rome's Church of Santa Maria del Popolo is obviously that the lives of men are subject to the planets, which are in turn subject to God. Raphael, who painted the pagan divinity Galatea for Chigi's palace, also made the Vatican shine with Christian and pagan subjects, depicting the company of the saints and a synod of ancient sages opposite...