Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contract bore the signatures of his Ambassador to the U. S. Giacomo De Martino, and Deputy Amedeo Perna, Italian dentist-politician, and the level script of George Eastman, Kodak & film tycoon. It sweetly gave $1,000,000 to the Italian Government to build and equip a dental clinic in Rome. At the same time it bitterly implied the rottenness and crookedness of Italian children's teeth. And it hobbled the champing Mussolini to certain stout stipulations...
...unselfish, intelligent director who for two months must study U. S. dental methods and clinics under Dr. Burkhart's direction. It must furnish funds to operate the clinic "in a first class manner perpetually, or so long as it is necessary to have such an institution in Rome...
...origins of this rift were in 1925 when the Czechs, three fourths of whom are Catholics, celebrated as a national holiday the anniversary of the martyrdom of John Hus five centuries ago. Since Heretic Hus had been burned for intimating that the anti-Christ could be found at Rome, the papacy was quick to express its resentment over this holiday and withdrew the Papal Nuncio from the Prague for almost a year...
...millionaire socialist named Matteotti was brutally murdered by Fascists and his body flung in a ditch (TIME, June 23, 1924), there was a worker in Fascist ranks named "General" Cesare Rossi. He had been a linotype operator under Editor Mussolini and a fervent pedestrian in the historic "March on Rome." In return for his epaulets, Dictator Mussolini apparently expected General Rossi to bear in silence a large part of the responsibility for the Matteotti murder. But at a crucial moment Cesare Rossi refused to keep quiet under blame and figuratively cried "Murderer!" at the man who had made him. Followed...
...Italy-doubtless fearing assassination. Thus Signor Grandi has been for a long time de facto Foreign Min- ister. Now he may revel in honors of rank at last due him. Three Quadrumvirs. Three members of the famed Quadrumvirate who strode with II Duce on the March to Rome in 1922, when he seized power, were given Cabinet posts last week. General Emilio De Bono, veteran of the Lybian and World Wars received the important Ministry of Colonies. General Italo Balbo, the leading Italian authority on military aviation, a clever flyer, a keen observer who visited the U. S. last year...