Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Remaking that Greater Boston has more Irish in it than Dublin and more Roman Catholics than Rome Norton commented on the temperamental dislike which the "vocal, aggressive, domineering" Irishmen have for the "Harvard Protestants...
...gets this sentimental old fellow. It isn't the mechanical end that lures him, for he is an awful dud at such things. It must be some bit of the romance and glamor of the "high iron" in his blood. His mother tends to blame it on his Uncle Rome who is a conductor and a mighty fine man. Uncle Rome might have been a big shot in some line, but he liked trains and never got around to anything else...
Meanwhile, Czechoslovak-Hungarian negotiations over the question of secession by Prague of Slovakian but not Ruthenian territory to Budapest concluded last week with an agreement to let the matter be arbitrated jointly by Germany and Italy. The German Foreign Minister, onetime Wine & Spirits Salesman Joachim von Ribbentrop, went to Rome to design the basis for this arbitration with Benito Mussolini, onetime hod carrier...
Italy, busy celebrating the 16th anniversary of the March on Rome, last week made two moves to bind what Italians call their ''fourth shore," the African colony of Libya 350 miles across the Mediterranean, closer to the mother country. The Fascist Grand Council decreed that Libya is henceforth part of Italy proper. Its four provinces, organized in 1934, are now political equals of the Italian provinces and will be represented at Rome...
Married. Captain Bruno Mussolini, 21, second son of Il Duce, Italian Royal Air Force pilot who found bombing the Ethiopians "most diverting"; and Gina Ruberti, 21, doe-eyed daughter of the head of the Ministry of Education's Contemporary Art Bureau; in Rome...