Word: rota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Switzerland last week furnished the first notable spy trial of World War II. A brunette dancer called Nina (real name: Virginia Capt Rota), arrested at the frontier as she sought to enter France last month, was found guilty of possessing Swiss anti-aircraft defense secrets. She was supposedly to deliver them by roundabout route to Italy. She was sentenced to five years in jail. With her were convicted Roger Joël, former draftsman in a Swiss arms plant; Paul Rochat, a Geneva detective, and Rochat's wife Dolly. In jail, Dancer Nina hunger-struck and tried suicide (wrist...
...Catholic authorities deny that such a ceremony, if any in fact was performed, could be valid because no action has been taken by the Sacred Roman Rota to dissolve the Countess' previous marriage...
...Congregation for the Propagation of Faith (missions); Monsignor Nicola Canali, assessor of the Congregation of the Holy Office (the Church's watchdog in matters of faith and morals); Monsignor Domenico Jorio, secretary of the Congregation of the Sacraments; Monsignor Massimo Massimi, dean of the Sacred Roman Rota (the Church's trial court); Monsignor Carlo Cremonesi, papal Grand Almoner; Monsignor Vincenzo La Puma, secretary of the Congregation of the Affairs of Religious; Monsignor Frederico Cattani Amadori, papal auditor, secretary of the Apostolic Signatura (Supreme Tribunal of the Roman Curia); Monsignor Domenico Mariani, treasurer of the papal Ministries; Rev. Pietro...
Died. Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, 62, of an intestinal disorder; in London. In 1895 he married Consuelo Vanderbilt; in 1926, five years after her divorce from the Duke and her marriage to Jacques Balsan. Consuelo Vanderbilt applied to the Rota for an annulment of the earlier marriage on the grounds that she had been coerced into it by her mother, the late Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont. The annulment was granted; Protestant ministers throughout the land objected acrimoniously. The Marquess of Blandford, 36. eldest son of the Duke and Consuelo Vanderbilt, inherits the title...
Monsignor Massimo Massimi, dean and examiner of the Sacred Roman Rota (Church law court) published the Vatican's first want advt. He needs a priest who has been graduated in canon law and theology, who knows French, who can typewrite...