Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Madrid had not yet fallen, even though its Government had been chased out, Hitler and Mussolini were acting in a manner deliberately premature when they recognized Franco. Spokesmen at Berlin and at Rome made ingenious comparisons, asking foreign correspondents to reflect on precedents afforded by their own governments. Thus President Theodore Roosevelt, whether or not he provoked an insurgent rising in the United States of Colombia, made haste to recognize the insurgents in the Colombian province of Panama and as his reward obtained the Canal Zone, ultimately squaring Colombia with $25,000,000. Had Colombia, instead, taken a belligerent...
...John L. Lewis is supposed to have jested: "Why shouldn't he belong to the musicians' union? Didn't Nero fiddle while Rome burned...
Cried Hungarian Foreign Minister kán-yai Kálman Kánya: "The Hungarian Regent, during his coming visit to Rome, personally will convey to His Majesty, King Vittorio Emanuele III, Hungarian recognition of the Roman Empire in Ethiopia...
...condition of his deal with roly-poly Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, a clause insuring, so the President believed, that adequate church-going facilities for U. S. citizens in Russia would be preserved (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933). Comrade Litvinoff, having secured Soviet recognition, went home to Moscow via Rome. When he was asked by the Eternal City's Catholic journalists whether the church clause was going to hold water he replied with his characteristic wink & shrug. Last week in Moscow, sudden and final violation of what President Roosevelt had thought would be an effective promise, occurred simultaneously with honors...
...years ago Father Svensson's German provincial returned from a trip to Japan, asked the Icelander if he would not enjoy a similar jaunt. Permission was granted by the General of the Order in Rome, providing Father Svensson would write a book about his trip, obtain a reputable doctor's assurance that his health was perfect, pay his own way. Father Svensson in good shape save for a touch of rheumatism in one leg, raised money for his trip by lecturing in France, Switzerland, Germany, set out for Japan via the U. S. and Canada...