Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That a Negroid nation should be menaced by spectacular Dictator Benito Mussolini highly excited the world's Negroes last week. Not only Harlem but every other darktown was on the qui vive at news from Rome that for three nights running II Duce had sat up secretly with His Grand Council, contriving who knew what against the African Majesty of cocoa-butter-colored Haile Selassie I (Power of Trinity), Emperor of Abyssinia and Conquering Lion of Judah, whose somewhat Jewish features support his boast of descent from Biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Clarioned the Negro...
...name of Power of Trinity's Charge d'Affaires in Rome is Negradas Yassou (which means Jesus). All last week Charge d'Affaires Jesus kept repeating to Romans "Abyssinia wants peace. We are willing to submit to arbitration. If Abyssinians are found guilty, all right, then we will salute the Italian flag, but not before...
...scotch rumors buzzing in the world press last week, this unprecedented announcement was made at Rome's Palazzo Venezia, thick-walled executive sanctum of the Dictator: "Her Excellency Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of II Capo del Governo, is not with child...
...Sanger outwitted Premier Mussolini of Italy, who treasures fecundity, by traveling as Mrs. J. Noah H. Slee. "Of course," she gleefully boasted soon as she was beyond his reach: "I did not get into Rome. But I managed to hold many private meetings on birth control. In Venice and Milan I had more demand for secret lectures before women's clubs than I could supply...
...From Rome every year a number of black-cassocked seminarians go home on vacation, take unto themselves wives, bed them legally. Presently, with the sanction of the Roman Catholic Church, these youths are ordained subdeacons. Later, men of family though they may be, they become priests. Unique in the Catholic clergy, such married priests are members of certain Uniat sects once estranged from Rome, now reunited, differing slightly in practice but accepting the full authority of the Pope...