Word: romes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...predicted in London banking circles even while Anthony Eden was at his most fervent in Geneva, hurling the thunderbolts of Sanctions at defiant Benito Mussolini (TIME, Oct. 21, 1935 et seq). Last week this British loan was just around the corner, according to the most orthodox of London and Rome correspondents...
...Ambassador-Designate Davies regards these preparations he confided to friends in the dining room of Washington's Mayflower Hotel one day last week. "We are going to live in Moscow very quietly, very simply," said he. " 'When in Rome,' you know. . . . We'll have just the comforts one ordinarily has in America. We are taking our own staff of servants. But, you may say, we shall have a minimum menage...
Died. Luigi Pirandello, 69, metaphysical playwright, member of the Italian Academy, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature; of pneumonia; in Rome. A spry, goat-bearded poet, novelist and schoolteacher, he turned to playwriting at 50, achieved fame in 1920 with Six Characters in Search of an Author. Believing life "a very sad piece of buffoonery," he constructed his unrealistic plots to prove that "nothing is true and anything might be." At his death, unpredictable Playwright Pirandello was finishing a volume to be called Memories of My Involuntary Sojourn on Earth...
Lorimer Robey '38 won the first prize in an essay competition held Tuesday evening under the auspices of the Classical Club. His essay was entitled, "The Doctrine of the Self and Saint Augustine and Descartes." Second prize winner was Gordon M. Messing '38 with "Literary Anti-Semitism at Rome...
...point. His State Department does not stand high even by U. S. standards. Nearly all his Ambassadors are colorless and mediocre. There is not a Page, a Herrick, even a Dawes among them. He has no Under Secretary of State whatever since William Phillips was sent to Rome. The ablest man he had to leave behind him when he sailed to Buenos Aires was Assistant Secretary R. Walton Moore, who, able as he may be, is nearing 80. Yet by force of a simple character Cordell Hull is easily the biggest man in Franklin Roosevelt's Cabinet...