Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contract agreeing to pay $20,000 for the two killings. He had delivered $5,000, but because he had withheld the rest, the killer had threatened to turn the contract over to the police. Whereupon Terranova had arranged to meet the killer at the Bronx-banquet for a settlement, had obtained the contract by means of the fake robbery...
...Reminiscent was the Pope in his second encyclical letter within a week. Reviewing the spiritual achievements of the year, he mentioned: concordats with Portugal, Rumania, Prussia; abatement of the persecution of priests in Mexico; new religious institutions in Rome: Lombard College, Russian College, Czechoslovakian College, Ethiopian Seminary; the settlement of the Roman question. Said he: "This happy termination opened a new era, in which Catholic Italy and the whole world rejoiced. Old prejudices have been forgotten by many in the peace with the Holy See." Added the Pope: His Golden Jubilee, technically ending Jan. 1, 1930, would be extended...