Word: vita
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government decreed surrender to a joint Government-refugee commission of the fabulous Vita treasure, smuggled from Spain by Juan Negrin, hijacked at sea by Negrin's onetime mentor Indalecio Prieto, and subsequently the cause célèbre of Spanish refugee politics. Valued between 70 and 300 million dollars, the treasure is coveted by the Franco Government, as well as by the refugees...
...Conservative Revolution, ex-Nazi Rauschning this week told why. The book, his second in six months, was a Prussian Apologia Pro Vita Sua, describing in a series of autobiographical letters (to an anonymous British friend) why "even men of good will [were driven] into Naziism" - and why they later left it. Like Cardinal Newman, who was a leader in the religious revival ("Oxford Movement") in 19th-Century England and eventually changed from the Anglican to the Catholic faith, Rauschning could write his apologia only in terms of the great issues of which he has become a spokesman. His book...
...dropped Holmes a postcard: "Certainly I believe you are as real as I am, but, as you are ejusdem generis with me, that does not make you a Ding an sich in the Kantian sense." The Italians grabbed Tripoli from Turkey, and Holmes wrote Pollock: "I have taken up Vita Nuova with Rossetti's translation alongside. Rossetti justifies to my mind my proposition that everything is dead in 25 years. ... As to Dante ... his discourse seems in equal parts from the heart and through...
...fore again came that Fascist firebrand, Roberto Farinacci, onetime Secretary General of the Fascist Party and now editor of Regime Fascista and the monthly La Vita d'ltalia. He accused Badoglio of "frequenting salons, hunting preserves and groups which received favors from him, saying he did not favor the [Greek] undertaking." As to rising prices, Editor Farinacci demanded: "With things increasing at this rate, are wages and salaries to remain unaltered? ... Is there anyone who imagines that profiteers have disappeared while the mass of the people are submitting to limitation in their standard of living...