Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cardinal O'Connell, of Boston, accompanied by Mgr. Michael J. Splaine, of Boston and Mgr. Richard J. Haberlin, Chancellor and Secretary of the Boston Archdiocese, recently arrived in Rome from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Said he: "Italy has undergone a transformation since Premier Mussolini has been in power. It is all a real wonder to me. . . . There is order, industry and cleanliness everywhere...
Senator Alberto Bergamini, for many years editor of the Giornale d'Italia and President of the Press Association, was about to enter his villa on the outskirts of Rome. Masked robbers followed him, stabbed him, beat him with steel gloves, relieved him of 1,300 lire and his gold presentation medals. Soon afterwards came the Senator's chauffeur upon the scene. He fired his revolver; the robbers fled. The Carabinieri arrested two suspects, Senator Bergamini was removed to a hospital...
Cardinal O'Connell, of Boston, arrived in Rome after a visit to the Holy Land. The Osservatore Romana, Vatican journal, commented upon the warm reception accorded to the Cardinal in Jerusalem. "This attests two things: First, the prestige which accompanies a Cardinal of the Roman Church wherever he goes, and second, the great value Palestine attaches to the interest America takes in her recent new destiny. With Cardinal O'Connell on his pilgrimage went the good wishes of millions of Americans." Said Cardinal O'Connell: "There is darkness in the Near East, where the peoples...
...Although Rome was deluged by a continuous and torrential downfall of rain, the Romans were miserable from thirst. The paradox is explained by a landslide which broke the Tivoli Aqueduct and thereby cut off Rome's domestic water supply...
Immense squads of workmen rapidly patched up the fractured aqueduct, but for several days the only water that Rome received was from the heavens. Even Benito was reported to have "gone unwashed for days...