Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George de Santillana, a graduate of the University of Rome, now at the New School for Social Research in New York City, has been appointed lecturer on the History of Science for one year. Roger A.B. Mynors, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and Frederick Sell, of Marburg-an-der-Lahn, Germany, have been appointed lecturers on Latin and German Literature respectively. Berbert W. Rand '97, associate professor of Zoology and tutor in Biology, has been appointed associate professor of Zoology, emeritus...
Jagged cakes of ice jostled each other in the Danube last week as lights flashed in the Royal Palace overlooking Budapest where statesmen sat down to nibble caviar and quaff champagne. The party was a meeting of the Rome Protocol States, organized over three years ago when Benito Mussolini succeeded in more definitely attaching Austria and Hungary to Italy as satellites. What was afoot was a whole series of moves by Fascists and Fascist sympathizers: 1) against Leftist Spain; 2) against the League of Nations; 3) against Communism; and 4) against France...
...Ciano; keen, Jesuit-trained Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria; and, as host, Hungarian Foreign Minister Kalman de Kanya. Unfortunately for them, Austria and Hungary are no longer so important to Italy as they seemed when they were the only sizable satellites II Duce could get to revolve around Rome. In recent months Yugoslavia has come under strong Italian influence (TiME, Dec. 20 et ante) and Germany, the planet at the other end of the self-styled "Rome-Berlin Axis," has brought Rumania under its influence. Therefore Premier Mussolini had not considered it necessary to go personally to Budapest...
...returning to Vienna from Budapest last week, ingeniously straddled: "Like all human enterprises, the League of Nations has in no wise fulfilled its initial aims. We consider it our right and duty to try to bring new life to the great old League. . . . We have never doubted that the Rome Protocols are our best orientation. . . . An anti-Communist pact long has been a practical reality for Austria and Hungary...
...festivities she remarked to a nearby stranger, "I think that we at least ought to see Mussolini here. I'm so disappointed because he won't be present when I'm singing ." "I'm sorry too," said the stranger, "but I have to go to Rome for " then added, "you must be almost the only woman who does not know Mussolini's face." Pauly apologized, said she didn't know much about politicians. "Brava! Brava!" exclaimed II Duce, "that is a true woman. Women should not bother themselves with politics; their business...