Word: romanizers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Benito Mussolini's growing Roman Empire last week grew a very little more. On Good Friday it absorbed the very little Balkan Kingdom of Albania. Only that and nothing more. Il Duce's coup was neither more nor less cynical and coldblooded than those of Adolf Hitler. But added to all that has taken place in recent months, this small plus quantity of aggression all but upset the status quo in Europe. The brink of war, already almost worn out with Europe's trembling, was trembled on once more...
...China such sustenance is among the cheapest in the world: one U. S. dollar will keep a man alive for a month. The Church Committee now sends about $10,000 a week to China, to be disbursed by Protestants and Roman Catholics as well...
...siege of Pampeluna in 1521, a French cannon ball whizzed between the legs of a Basque knight named Íñigo de Oñez y Loyola, breaking his right shin and tearing his left calf. For the Roman Catholic Church, beleaguered by the Protestant Reformation, that shot was providential. Íñigo, laid up in his castle (and ever after afflicted with a limp), began thinking pious thoughts which led him, in 1534, to form a "flying squadron," the Society of Jesus, in the front ranks of the Church's Counter Reformation against Protestantism...
...Largest and swankiest spa in England is the venerable town of Bath, 107 miles from London. Bath's principal claims to fame are its Roman remains, its Georgian house-fronts, and its spring water. Gouty Britishers have drunk and dunked themselves in Bath's water since the time of the Roman Empire. Not so well known as Bath's baths, but no less remarkable, is Bath's Pump Room Orchestra, a small 18-man group, which is today the oldest established orchestra in the British Empire...
...death in 1938 of Patrick Cardinal Hayes left the Roman Catholic Church in the U. S. with only three Cardinals. Many a U. S. Catholic hopes that Pope Pius XII will create...