Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notorious fact that any church declines and stagnates where it is not pushed by the competition of another faith. The Roman Catholic Church reigns supreme in Colombia, and when the young priest Manuel Ferrando, of the Capuchin Order, was sent from Rome in 1898 to work for the Società Propaganda Fides, he may have found Colombia religiously stagnant. Whatever may have been the cause, he left the Roman Catholic Church in 1900, and went to Ponce, Porto Rico, where he established a communal agricultural mission, and founded the " Church of Jesus." In the years that followed he became attracted...
...Prix de Rome for painting was awarded to Francis Scott Bradford, 25, well-dressed, well-fed New Yorker...
...with Americans he used an interpreter, but " so mobile is his face and so rapid its play of expression that the watching interviewer can get his meaning almost before the English words reach the ear." The Premier attended the recent session of the International Chamber of Commerce held in Rome. Cinema men prepared to take a picture of him. The great man frowned?the picture was not taken. Explaining his change from Socialism to Fascism, Mussolini said: "I looked at Russia and saw the logical outcome of what I once believed in. It was too much...
...directors of il Teatro degli Italiani in Rome presented a memorial to Mussolini asking for his assistance in subsidizing a State Theatre. Mussolini not only granted their request but offered his personal support...
...Prix de Rome (for sculpture) offered by the American Academy at Rome, was awarded for next year to Alvin Meyer, of Cambridge, Maryland. Meyer is at present a student at the Academy. There are two other Prix de Rome awarded annually, for painting and architecture...