Word: romano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since these remarks flatly contradict the maxim of Mussolini: "'Nothing outside the State! Nothing against the State!" the Vatican news organ, Osservatore Romano, sought next day to soften the Pope's rebuke to Mussolini. The editor ingeniously declared that President Coolidge and Premier Mussolini both "are agreed on the principle of the pre-eminence of spiritual things." From Mr. Coolidge was quoted: "Religion is necessary"; but the nearest similar remark which could be quoted from Mussolini was of very different purport: "Youth must be brave, honest and upright...
Every year Columbia University awards a prize of $1,500 (Pulitzer money) to "that art student who shall be certified as the most promising and deserving by the National Academy of Design." Last week this prize was given to Humbert R. Romano of Springfield, Mass.-age 20, born in Naples, youngest of a family of eight...
...Vatican categorically denies the interpretation, given by the German conservative papers, that expressions appearing in the Osservatore Romano concerning Socialism are to be construed as bearing on the German Presidential election or that the Holy See has expressed itself as being opposed to the election of Dr. Marx. The Holy See does not intervene in the national politics of Germany, nor does it propose...
...Eminence Cardinal Maffi is 67 years of age. Like the Pope, he has a hobby- Science, in which he is extremely well versed. In appearance, he is a typical Romano- high forehead, heavy overhanging brows, full mouth, quantities of white hair which was once jet black. His ideas are modern, too modern for some of his followers. Not long ago, he proposed at his own expense to erect a statue to Galileo, famed scientist, equally famed as a heretic. Pisa went mad. Nevertheless, he is extremely popular and is known as the "War Cardinal" because he advocated a fight...
...Rome, the Osservatore Romano, official loudspeaker for the Vatican, printed extracts from Cardinal Maffi's letter; no other newspaper dared follow suit for fear of suppression. But the Osservatore Romano, in its turn, did not deem it politic to ignore the sage words of one of the mightiest Princes of the Church...