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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Dictator Mussolini has solved the Roman Question, has established friendly relations between the Papacy and the Italian Royal Family, it became sick Pope Pius to make some gracious comment. Declared L'Osservatore Romano, semiofficial Vatican organ: "God has given his sign...
...short, "There's No Place Like Rome" lived up to its title and had us almost expelled by the management, high points being young hopeful Flavius calling for a vanilla popsicle, Roman gladiators rowing back from conquering Gaul in approved crew fashion, and man-eating lions charmed to rest by a jazz band wearing armor...
...front cover) In Vatican City a little more than two years ago, the hale Holy Father of the world's 331,500,000 Roman Catholics briskly bestowed his approval upon a decision tentatively made by the Permanent Committee of the Perpetual International Eucharistic Congress. Since 1881, under the guidance of this Committee, 32 great gatherings of Catholics had been held, as religious demonstrations against secularization, in such great cities as London, Chicago, Sydney, Buenos Aires, in such holy places as Lourdes and Jerusalem. The 33rd Eucharistic Congress, agreed the Committee and Pope Pius XI, would go to Manila...
Bells & Whistles-No other church on earth has the taste for pomp of the Roman Catholic Church, or possesses such a world-wide organization geared to deck a city with yellow-&-white flags, provide a week-long demonstration by happy, enthusiastic masses. The Committees of the 33rd International Eucharistic Congress included even a Committee on Bells & Whistles, and last week when the Conte Rosso ploughed into Manila Bay all the bells in the city, all the craft in the Bay, including 15 "floating hotels" for Congress pilgrims, set up a prodigious din while 25,000 Filipinos cheered on the Luneta...
...preserved specimens, dates from the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, 2000-1200 B.C., and from the beginning of the Iron Age, 1200-600 B.C. The 46 glass objects are excellent examples of the principal varieties of glass bottles, jugs, and bowls found in tombs dating from the Greek and Roman periods...