Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first classically totalitarian State in the Western Hemisphere.* At 6 a. m. they completed a proclamation not only abolishing the Senate, Chamber of Deputies, the Constitution, all courts, all legal codes, but establishing a dictatorship over Bolivian political, financial and social life. They denied, however, any connection with the Rome-Berlin Axis. At 10:30 the proclamation was released. The public was more apathetic than surprised...
Director Hanson, who raised his goatee when he was studying in Rome because he thought young musicians attracted too little attention, still defends the young U. S. composer with crotchety vigor. No modernist himself, he personally dislikes the dissonant groanings and thumpings of the musical Kulturbolschewiki. But he will defend to the death their right to groan and thump...
...play called Caesar, by Giovacchino Forzano, opened last week in Rome. The New York Times boldly predicted that the Rome reviews would compare Caesar to "Shakespeare, Goethe and Wagner at their best, and with a touch of genius that even these great men did not attain." "It is understood," continued the fimes, "that a relatively new playwright named Benito Mussolini collaborated with Signer Forzano on this opus...
Married. Giuseppina Manchini, niece of Benito Mussolini; and Aviation Lieut. Renato Romanini, recently returned from bombing Spain; in Rome. To attend the wedding, Premier Mussolini postponed for one hour a Cabinet meeting called to hear his new armament program...
Married. Richard Scott Mowrer, Rome correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, son of its editor, Paul Scott Mowrer, nephew of its Paris correspondent, Edgar Ansel Mowrer; and Rosamund Cole, of the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune; in Rome, 20 minutes before the bridegroom had to leave Italy because the censor did not like his dispatches...