Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Roman Catholic priests in the U. S. intone the solemn prayers and hymns of the Mass. In the byways of the faith, in many an obscure church, priests chant Greek, Rumanian, Arabic, Armenian. Slavonic and in many other details the rites they celebrate differ from those of Rome. Indeed, some of these priests may be married, provided they were wed before they became Catholic deacons. Named according to the rites they use. such non-Latin branches of Catholicism adhere to all dogmas, recognize the supreme sovereignty of the Pope...
Signal Officer: Scipio Africanus, who without benefit of radio or cable won victories overseas for Rome...
...Rumania's Sinaia last week the Foreign Ministers of Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia (the Little Entente) met over a case of champagne for their annual get together. This year's meeting was crucial. Dictator Mussolini for months has been trying to weld Yugoslavia to his Rome-Berlin axis, to smash thei Little Entente's solidarity and isolate "pink" Czechoslovakia, a Fascist headache because of her mutual assistance pact with Soviet Russia. Glowing with good food and drink, the diplomats spiked Mussolini's hopes by reaffirming their policy of sticking together, approving a hands-off policy...
...wheedle Italy into accepting this or even attendance at the conference, it was important that Italy should not be accused directly, but Russia, fighting mad at the loss of her ships during the summer, suddenly upset the apple cart. Bluntly she sent a note to Rome, accusing Italy outright of the torpedoing of the Soviet freighters Timiriazev and Blagoev during the past week and demanding cash reparations. Just as bluntly Italy denied the torpedoing, refused payment, intimated she would sit at no conference table with Russia...
...northwest was Gijon, and as Rightists pushed westward along the Bay of Biscay they claimed Asturian troops were in full flight before them, 5,000 surrendering at the port town of Lanes. The Vatican had recognized the Rightist State. Off the tables of Marshal Pietro Badoglio in Rome was generally expected a new plan of attack by which Madrid would be captured before cold weather set in. The Leftist offensive against Saragossa seemed flopping like a flounder...