Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Machine guns crackled last week in the tortuously inclined streets of Lisbon. The city, built like Imperial Rome on seven hills, was weathering the 18th Portuguese revolution since 1910.† Last week the struggle between the two factions of the military adventurers who now dominate Portugal became so furious that the U. S. Legation was hit by stray machine-gun fire, and U. S. Minister Fred Morris Dearing hastily decamped to the suburbs...
Last week news came of a secret meeting at Paris between five Chinese Ministers, to try and decide from what Chinese faction they would take orders. They were: Chao Hsin-chu (Minister to Rome and Representative before the League); Tcheng-loh (Minister to Paris) ; Wei Cheng-tchean (Berlin) ; Fang King-ky (Brussels) ; and Wang Kuang-ky (The Hague...
...Rome Wire Co., and Moser & Cotins (Utica, N. Y. agency) for their Rome Wire trade journal...
...Rome", Professor Murray, Harvard 3, English...
Republican Rome had its Slave Revolt, sixteen century Europe its Peasant Uprisings, the turn of the nineteenth century its Red Terror, and contemporary Western civilization its Third inter-national. The first three were perpetual nightmares to the conservative mind in their respective periods. The last is rapidly becoming...