Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your complete article and photograph of Father Coughlin makes a distinct impression on me (TIME, July 27). One is "Oh what patience has our Holy Father at Rome." Second is that when any man calls our President a liar, especially a man in high places, he distinctly gives impetus to law-breaking and Communism...
Next door to Greece is Bulgaria. Last week its Little Tsar Boris, also troubled by Reds, was on a swift trip to consult Mussolini in Rome, then Hitler in Berlin. Nebulously an international European Fascist solidarity seemed forming to counter-balance the Communist International...
...Idumean, traditionally pagan in the Jewish world. He became king of Judea principally through the intrigues of his father, Antipater, who had been active in fomenting civil war in Palestine in the hope of securing Roman intervention. At that time Pompey, on a triumphal march from Armenia back to Rome, stopped to add to his laurels by putting Judea under Roman domination, left Antipater the real power behind a dummy king. Herod was thus always the representative of Rome in a remote and hostile country, first won recognition when he cleaned out rebellious patriots and bandits in Galilee, opened...
...overthrow. Forthright, candid in his ruthlessness, Herod could not cope with the subtlety of the courtiers and diplomats of Jerusalem, was almost driven mad by real or imaginary conspiracies around him. He killed his wife, his mother-in-law, his three oldest sons, even shook his great prestige at Rome by the frenzy of his conspiracy-hunting. Growing more and more active as an administrator as he wiped out the members of his family, he rebuilt cities, established a navy, laid out roads, rebuilt the great temple at Jerusalem, in an effort to win the favor of his subjects...
...some familiar environment. Last week an ironic little volume by a onetime member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies gave U. S. readers a vivid, thought-provoking picture of the various ways native Sardinians-radicals, innocent bystanders, Fascists-reacted to the bewildering news of Mussolini's march on Rome on Oct. 30, 1922, changing sides at the last moment, heroically jumping before the steam roller as it got under way, or simply waiting to see what was going to happen before they declared their allegiance. A strong liberal, Emilio Lussu had been an officer in the Italian Army during...