Word: roman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the Roman Forum fell, freedom fell!" roared Texas' old Tom Connally at his colleagues last week. The Senate was considering a petition to shut off, by invoking cloture, the filibuster that Senator Connally and his Southern friends had carried on for 17 days against the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill (TIME, Jan. 24). The cloture motion needed two thirds of the votes to succeed. It failed, 37 votes...
Italian papers referred for the first time last week to the passo romano or Roman step, said it is done "by keeping the leg rigid and striking the foot violently against the ground...
Crabwise march God's churches, usually, as they creep slowly toward Christian Unity. For believers in this great concept, to which the Roman Catholics alone offer a great obstacle (papal supremacy), last week was an active one. Churchmen took two steps forward, only one step backward...
Forward. At the Oxford Conference on Church & State last summer (TIME, July 26), non-Roman churchmen from all over the world agreed in principle to the establishment of a World Council of Churches. To choose ten U. S. delegates to a preliminary conference which, in Utrecht, The Netherlands next May, will draw up a constitution for the Council, 30 U. S. churches claiming 30,000,000 members sent electors to a meeting at the National (Episcopal) Cathedral in Washington last fortnight. Having elected most of the delegates, leaders among the electors last week sought for a label by which they...
...years; that Of Human Bondage and Candide sell widely enough each year to crowd all but the most popular new books. Most surprising figure revealed by Publisher Cerf: in four years a two-volume set of Gibbon's 150-year-old Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire has sold 50,000 copies, is still going strong...