Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortunately the Carrara precipice overhangs blue Mediterranean wavelets. A ship can carry what a railway car cannot. And from the Mediterranean a ship, not too big, may ascend the River Tiber, even to Eternal Rome...
...Resignations were accepted bu Il Capo Del Governo.* last week, from the chief executives of Turin, Milan, Florence and Rome. It was as though President Calvin Coolidge should suddenly oust the mayors of San Francisco, Denver, Chicago and New York. All Italy wondered why?and presently Il Capo designed to tell...
...Governor (mayor) of Rome who resigned, last week, is Prince Ludovico Spada Potenziani, famed because he was visited by and returned the visit of New York's Mayor James ("Jimmy") Walker. Tall, bronzed, cadaverous and silent, Prince Potenziani left his office for the last time without a word to subordinates, merely saluting them in Fascist fashion, with his right arm inclined upward and forward...
Shortly the next gubernatorial "cycle" was begun in Rome by Don Francesco Boncompagni-Ludovisi, Prince of Piornbino, scion of a family from which have also sprung two Popes...
Paradoxically the Prince of Piombino was among the first of Italian nobles to resign from the Catholic Party and enroll in the Fascist, immediately after the "March on Rome" (Oct. 27, 1922). Since then he has enjoyed a career as Deputy and Undersecretary of the Treasury. Particularly has he pleased Il Duce by introducing ultra modern farm machinery and methods on his ancient estates...