Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unendurable and soon Nazi and Fascist press puppets were swinging into action. German Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels sprinkled Nazi papers with such ominous phrases as "impending decisions," the "war of tomorrow," the "mighty reckoning" to come. The Italians went Dr. Goebbels one better. Il Messagero, of Rome, flatly warned: "If within a certain time the democracies do not yield to councils of reason we go to war." The Fascist official newsorgan Resto del Carlino roared: "The time of reckoning is near. . . . They still deny us Tunis, Djibouti, Suez and also deny Danzig and colonies to our ally, Germany...
...conference of generals in Berlin, and Italian Chief of Staff Alberto Pariani and German Commander-in-Chief of the Army General Walther von Brauchitsch set to work forming an Italian-German supreme military council. Later, Colonel General Erhard Milch, Chief of Staff of the German Air Force, flew to Rome to unify the two countries' air forces...
...whiling away the time between crises learning to play bridge; in Belgium, where they are polishing their bicycles preparing for the 28th annual cycle tour next week; in Stockholm, where midnight concerts are about to begin and crowds are flocking to see Bette Davis in Dark Victory; in Rome, where they are laughing at a boy-meets-girl comedy called Two Dozen Red Roses and singing a tuneful song called It Was Folly; in Russia, where football squads are drilling for the summer season; in London, where the most popular song is Deep Purple. Over the crisis-worn continent last...
...public schools. At the Lycée Duparc in Lyon one of his teachers was Edouard Herriot. By winning first in a history competition at the University of Nimes in 1909, young Daladier obtained an appointment as professor of history at Nimes and a fellowship to study in Rome. Professor Daladier, according to his pupils, ran his classes "seriously but without solemnity," had a "horror of sterile academicism." Occasionally he even had a fit of classroom temper and heaved a book at a numskull...
...York World's Fair:**John Jacob Astor III; Henry Ford, who let school children snapshoot him; Glamorite Brenda Frazier; her onetime cavalier, William Livingston, who dined at another table; Vittorio Cini, Commissioner General of the 1942 Rome Exposition (said he: "Mussolini and Hitler are thinking peace"); Playboy James Donahue, who smashed a photographer's camera when he snapped Cousin Barbara (Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow...