Word: rome
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Died. Tullio Serafin, 89, Italian conductor of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera from 1924 to 1934; of a heart attack; in Rome. For half a century Serafin conducted at Milan's La Scala, the Met, London's Covent Garden, and Paris' Opéra. A great interpreter of Verdi and Puccini, he also championed such U.S. composers as Deems Taylor and Louis Gruenberg...
Royalist Removals. Even as it gained status abroad, the junta consolidated its position at home by punishing the officials and army officers who had sided with the King. It removed former Premier Constantine Kollias, who had accompanied the King on his flight to Rome, from his post as Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme Court and gave dishonorable discharges to 33 army officers, including Lieut. General George Peridis, who tried to rally army troops in northern Greece to the King's cause. It also dismissed 56 university professors for disloyalty to the regime and barred them from teaching in Greece...
That ended the diplomatic boycott that foreign nations had imposed on the Athens regime since King Constantine fled to Rome last December after his abortive coup. From now on, the junta will be able to conduct the business of state just like any other government, and the junta-appointed regent will be recognized as head of state by other nations until the King returns. The action undercut King Constantine's bargaining position with the junta, but he kept silent...
...minded Archbishop, 63, accepted an unprecedented invitation from John Cardinal Heenan, 63, to speak at London's Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral. Demonstrators from the conservative British Council of Protestant Christian Churches waited for Ramsey outside the cathedral, name-calling and waving placards that accused Ramsey of "Running to Rome." In the pulpit, His Grace was unwavering. "We are able now," he said, "with the authority of both our churches, to act together not as rivals but as allies...
...Mitten says that "there is no question" but that it is the brutal but brilliant emperor Caracalla (A.D. 188-217) who murdered his brother (and co-emperor) in order to secure sole power, put to death some 20,000 of his brother's supporters, but also adorned Rome with many handsome public buildings. Imperial statues such as this were set up both in homes and public squares, and Romans were expected to burn incense to them. Failure to worship the imperial god, as the early Christians knew, was punishable by imprisonment and death...