Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yugoslavia. "The mother-in-law of the Balkans," 51, will visit in September, it was announced, that nation to whose citizens her face is familiar through mammoth cosmetic advertisements and syndicated press matter-the U. S. Meanwhile King Ferdinand of Rumania set out to visit Paris, Switzerland, Rome, the Vatican. Despatches reported an allegedly not serious clash between potent bands of Bulgarian bandits and Rumanian frontier guards at Aflar and Dobrudja. One Eva Maneva, little known outside the violent bandit aristocracy of Bulgaria, was found in the vicinity of Dobrudja with her head hacked off by a bayonet...
About Rome there is much woeful wagging of heads. Vatican expenses have mounted. This year's income is reported already expended. What the Vatican's total income is has never been revealed since 1870, when the temporalities were confiscated by Italy. Pius IX (died 1878) left $6,000,000 of income-bearing capital. Of this sum his successor Leo XIII (died 1903) lost some $2,000,000 by poor investments, yet recouped himself by administrative economies. Pius XI's income-producing wealth is more than $7,000,000. But most of the annual income is derived from...
...Vatican heard without comment that drops of red liquid flowed from the eyes of an obscure "Virgin and Child," a fresco on a building now being demolished, in Milan. Townswomen insist this was blood and was a sign of the Virgin's displeasure "at the men folk, who swear too much...
...Signor Federzoni is suave, aristocratic, bland. His voice has a low vibrant timbre, which engenders fear. It is well known that he attends Mass every morning before seeking his Ministry. Perhaps less known is the fact that in the councils of Fascismo he speaks- not always softly-for the Vatican. At his insistance Roberto Farinacci, "the Scourge of Fascismo," long, right-hand terrorist to Mussolini, was replaced as Secretary-General of the Fascist Party (TiME, Apr. 12), by the comparatively mild and steady-going Augusto Turati. The latter, sharply prodded by Fed-erzoni, instituted an investigation of Farinacci...
...week, the Pope, passing through the Basilica of St. Peter, heard a confused disorder down a twilit aisle, turned his face to look and, seeing nothing, passed on. A young prelate who had been sitting in that aisle was at the moment being led off to confinement between two Vatican gendarmes. Hearing the Pope's step he had sprung upon a chair, burst into a sacrilegious harrangue. The clever gendarmes did not attempt to eject him. Instead, they attracted his attention by making funny faces until the Pope had gone by. Then they arrested him. The unknown blasphemer suffered...