Word: roman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yugoslav Premier Milan Stoyadinovich who had spent the earlier part of the week in Rome being feted by Dictator, King and Pope, and arranging to buy Italian war planes for Yugoslavia. While M. Delbos shook hands with Premier Stoyadinovich who is up to his neck in Fascism, the Roman press jeered "Delbos is wasting his time!" Under their late, assassinated King Alexander I (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934), the Yugoslavian people were taught, however, to think of France as their friend and Italy as their enemy and the new, pro-Italian policy of Premier Stoyadinovich is today anything but popular. This...
...Manhattan last week was a handsome, vivacious brunette of ample presence whose Roman and Catholic distinctions are as the sands of the sea. A niece and godchild of Pope Leo XIII, Countess Anna Laetitia ("Mimi") Pecci-Blunt received her first communion at the hands of the Pontiff himself. Her father, Count Camillo Pecci, was Commander of the Noble Guards of the Vatican and a leader of the "Blacks" who, before Conciliation with Mussolini in 1929, upheld the Papal Court in Roman society against the "Whites" who honored the King. Her mother was the Spanish Marquesa des Bueno, descendant...
William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston, never goes to the movies, rarely has films exhibited in his Commonwealth Avenue home, and on those infrequent occasions seldom applauds or sees a picture to its end. Last fortnight, however, Cardinal O'Connell beat palm on palm while sitting through a film brought to his house by George Kraska, manager of Boston's highbrow Fine Arts Theatre, and Rev. Michael Joseph Ahern, S. J., one of New England's ablest Jesuits. The picture was Monastery, a European religious documentary film, the better part of which...
Pope Pius XI has not yet given U. S. Roman Catholics the new, fifth Cardinal that many of them feel entitled to, but he has consistently created new archdioceses wherever he has felt that Catholicism was flourishing. Having since 1922 made archiepiscopal sees of San Antonio, Los Angeles and Detroit, Piux XI last week did the same for Newark, N. J. and Louisville, Ky., which brings the number of U. S. archbishops...
...church and living quarters. He posed for photographers, wearing vestments resembling a bishop's and a mitre bearing cabalistic words, with one of his tonsured "monks" by his side. He held services for his people, giving them "the sacraments," for, as his housekeeper explained, "we are really a Roman Catholic church although we are not under the Pope." But when the press began getting too inquisitive, "Padre" Abbate secreted himself, had a sign put on the door: For Members Only...