Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Surrounded by a resplendent guard of Fascist mounted police, a lavishly decorated coach slowly ascended the Capitoline Hill, famed cradle of Imperial Rome. As the coach drew up before the Capitol itself, Dictator Premier Benito Mussolini regarded it benignly, and extended a cordial welcome from a balcony of the Capitol itself...
...moments later the voice of Il Duce Benito boomed from the Capitol as he inducted Senator Cremonesi as the first Governor of Rome under the new Fascist law replacing popularly elected mayors throughout Italy with podestas (governors) appointed by the Central Government (TIME...
Your item entitled "At Rome," Dec. 28 issue, p. 18, causes me to take back the credit I gave TIME and list it as an uncalled for agitation of literature or as the saying goes, good for one?bad for another...
...pays $25,000 a year. Moreover it is a responsible position?Mayor of a great municipality. Its greatness can be measured in a number of ways: in area 314.75 square miles; in population 5,873,356 inhabitants, 2,000,000 of them foreign born; in Italians, larger than Rome; in Irishmen, larger than Dublin; in Germans, larger than Bremen; in Jews, 10% of all those in the world; in telephones, more than in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Leningrad combined; in annual pork consumption, 450,000,000 lb.; in annual banana consumption, 435,000,000 lb.; in annual onion consumption...
That inimitable critic of schnitzels and life, George Jean Nathan, occasionally enters the territory where angels fear to tread. In his last group of clinical notes he disputes no less a person then a gentleman and writer, now too often slighted, one Quintus, Horatius Flaccus of Rome and the Sabine Hills. This Flaccus, whose poetry has gone into several editions, even being used as a text for stylists, once amiably asserted that there was truth in wine. Mr. Nathan objects: there is no truth in wine...