Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although the sixth anniversary of the March on Rome was celebrated by 1,250,000 parading Fascists, last week, not a single public oration was pronounced?by order of the Head of the State, who utterly detests and frequently denounces "holiday oratory...
...celebration of the "March" or Coup d'Etat whereby Editor Benito Mussolini became Dictator, he decreed, last week, inauguration of the following recently completed public works: new "Palace of Justice" in Messina, Sicily (cost some 20.000.000 lire); new Ministry of Marine and Ministry of Education buildings in Rome; new "Port of Rome" at Civita Vecchia (45 miles from the Capital); and two new commercial air services?respectively Rome-Syracuse-Tripoli and Rome- Genoa-Marseilles-Barcelona-Las Palmas, both routes served by 2,000 h.p. four-motored German super-Wahl seaplanes...
Therefore, last week was a sort of Fascist New Year's tide. There were mammoth processions in celebration of the "Fascist March on Rome" (see above); but also there was much quiet casting up of political accounts. Especially were the recent "diplomatic victories" of Benito Mussolini proudly reviewed...
...months afterwards, not until the King's cousin had returned to Rome, was partial revelation made of what he accomplished. Much has still to be revealed. But these things are known: 1) Italy has leased to Abyssinia for 130 years the use of a corridor through the Italian colony of Eritrea to the Red Sea, and the port of Assab; 2) Under an Italo-Abyssinian "Treaty of Amity and Arbitration" Italian financiers enjoy an option of financing any concessions which may be let along the new trade route from Assab to Addis Ababa; 3) A railroad to serve this route...
...evangelical (Methodistic) low church. When it came time to take up the proposed exclusion of the 39 articles of prayer, a bad-taste controversy loomed. High churchmen did not want the articles; low churchmen wanted them, because their inclusion prevented even the kinship of resemblance to the Church of Rome. A controversy was averted by uncompromising retention of the articles, with the active approval of the House of Deputies & the House of Bishops, the passive acquiescence of the high churchmen. Good taste, it seemed, had triumphed...