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...young Brooklyn boys in zoot suits, Joseph Annunziata and Neil Simonelli, never did like their old math teacher anyhow. So one day two months ago they went back to their high school and smoked in a washroom, just to be annoying. When the teacher reprimanded them and sent them packing, they got sore. Presently they returned to the school with a revolver and shot the math teacher in the back. He died in his blood on the floor of the school corridor. On such evidence the two boys, no longer in zoot suits, were last week sent to Sing Sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Terrorized Teachers | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

Fortnight ago, Vittorio Emanuele III and Queen Elena visited the Holy Father in the Vatican, as they had his predecessor. Last week the King bestowed the Supreme Order of Santissima Annunziata upon Luigi Cardinal Maglione, Papal Secretary of State. This decoration, which makes its owner an honorary "cousin of the King," has long been held by Pius XII. Next, the Holy Father gave Foreign Minister Count Ciano a moderately good decoration, the Order of the Golden Spur. The Vatican whispered that this week Il Duce is to pay a formal call on Il Papa (although the Pa lazzo Venezia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Pope to Quirinal | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...Most Exalted Star of India, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Grand Master of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael & St. George, Grand Master of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Knight of the Golden Fleece of Spain, Knight of the Order of the Annunziata of Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Prince Edward | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...Only a score of Italians are members of the Order of the Annunziata, headed by His Majesty, and only their wives have the right to be called "Her Excellency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Family to Safety | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

Every Cabinet Minister is "His Excellency" but in Italy last week the title "Her Excellency" was restricted by drastic decree to the wife of Premier Benito Mussolini and wives of other members of the Order of the Annunziata, most exalted in Italy. Besides // Duce only 20 other persons comprise the Order, including 18 of the blood royal and Pietro Cardinal Gasparri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Decree on Wives | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

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