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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like his predecessor Pius XI, Pope Pius XII is called "Pope of Peace" by his admirers. Published last week was a quick job of biography of the new Pope, Pius XII, Pope of Peace, † which made out no case for giving him, any more than Pius XI, such a special designation. Last week the Holy Father spent his first Holy Week in office, a week made notable by the fact that his neighbor Benito Mussolini chose Good Friday to invade Albania. On Easter Sunday Pius XII made a radio address to the world: "There can be no peace...
...impish but not impious gaiety of Rossini's comic operas (Ceneventola, The Barber of Seville). Rossini, one of the laziest and wittiest of all composers, wrote his Solemn Mass in 1863 at the age of 71, called it his "last mortal sin," marked one passage Allegro Cristiano (quick but Christian), confessed he did not know whether it was "musique sacrée ou sacrée musique" (sacred or accursed music), made one tenor solo, Domine Deus, sound like a swashbuckler's serenade, and directed that the composition should be sung by "three sexes-men, women and eunuchs...
...Smith had another solution : to give farmers parity payments instead of loans after the present crop season, release the Government's holdings in 1940. And Alabama's John Bankhead had still another: let farmers buy back their hocked cotton for 3? a pound, sell it at a quick profit, promise to reduce their acreage correspondingly...
Said Post Office Superintendent William J. Dixon, defending his selection of a blonde secretary: "She is alert, apt, quick, energetic . . . best suited. You Senators and others call at my office and it is necessary that you all be courteously treated...
Rupert Lewis was pounding along the smooth Jackson-Vicksburg highway in his truck one night last week, trailing a car ahead. Suddenly the twin taillights in front of him melted into the road, disappeared. Driver Lewis caught a quick glimpse of a black gap in the concrete before his own truck plunged. The lights went out, water rushed into the cab. He smashed a window, somehow came up in a turgid flood...