Word: populi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome, with massive solemnity, the canons of Santa Maria Maggiore took down from the altar the painting of Mary and Child known as Salus Populi Romani (Safety of the Roman people). Holding high the holy, red-brown painting, done on wood and attributed by Catholics to St. Luke, they marched through the streets of Rome, followed by a vast procession. On the steps of St. Peter's, the canons of the cathedral received the Salus Populi and placed the image on a dais in Michael-angelo's basilica. There, this week, in the presence of some 40 cardinals...
...book during the reading of the indictment and during the prosecutor's withering, 50-minute speech, which the gallery loudly cheered. Then cheers turned to jeers as Arnulfo Arias stood up to speak. Making no defense against the charges, he left his case up to the people. "Vox populi," he said, "vox Dei" From the packed gallery came the voice of the people...
...Populi. In Bismarck, N.Dak., while the state legislature was in session in the city, a classified advertisement appeared in the Bismarck Tribune: "Sleeping room for gentlemen. Also room for legislator...
...Populi. In Mankato, Minn., Mrs. Shirley Moore got a 90-day suspended sentence and a fine of $108.50-the exact amount it cost the telephone company to trace the 630 calls she had made to the sheriff's office to give him a big Bronx cheer...