Word: romani
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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...
...precise pronunciation of Romani may have stopped reverberating in the Stockyards Amphitheatre, but the troubles that called it forth are still rattling about Republican circles in Puerto Rico. The dispute, as important in principle if not votes as any of the larger contests aired at the GOP convention, has simply shifted from the convention floor, where viewers glimpsed it only during the ludicrous moments when the threeman delegation was polled, to the National Committee, where Eisenhower enthusiasts in Puerto Rico have filed suit to oust the pro-Taft National Committeeman and woman...
Typical of all the contests, Puerto Rico's troubles began when a convention of six hundred odd selected one slate of delegates and a rump of forty-eight selected another. The legal delegation included one Eisenhower rooter, Mr. Julia, and one for Stassen, Mr. Romani, while the rump electees included two men for Taft. Common to both groups was a supposedly neutral delegate...
...both groups was seated of course, and the trading concerned which of the other three--Mr. Julia was ignored on account of his absence--should be placed on the temporary roll. At length they all agreed on a deal, authored by one of the Puerto Ricans, which seated Romani from the legal delegation and Blenes from the rump as the second and third men, provided that the latter be the delegation's chairman and its contribution to the all-important credentials committee...
...Committee's Taftites had by no means accepted a passive role, and finally one of them put a motion to unseat Romani, replace him with the third Rump electee, and otherwise leave the delegation as Gabrialson and Gates had bequeathed it. After another wrangle, the Committee passed this motion, and since the neutral delegate whom both groups shared had voted with the Taft men on all issues, this virtually deprived the legal Puerto Rican convention of any representation whatsoever...