Word: dallas
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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With brazen clatter a telegraph machine spat news of speed and Death, last week, into the dignified Roman sanctum of Editor Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre. The Count publishes L'Osservatore Romano, the sole daily newsorgan permitted to speak for the Vatican...
When the wires grew quiet, Count Dalla Torre had leisure and opportunity to confer with Monsignors, Cardinals and even the Most Blessed Father respecting the Grand Prix whizz-smash. Two days later the patient, timeless Papacy made its Most High Opinion known through Count Dalla Torre. Printed...
...devoted Son of the Church, Count Dalla Torre conducts L'Osservatore Romano under the charter of a strictly private corporation, but indicates its true status by printing daily as its device the Papal mitre and crossed keys. He maintains absolute the decorum of L'Osservatore's news and editorial columns, but does not scorn to accept advertisements of fountain pens, filing cabinets, asperin, hair tonics, and that esteemed internal remedy Le Pillole Pink...
Thus, Editor Count Dalla Torre is both a loyal Son of the Church and a businessman of the world. As such he signed his authoritative initials, last week, to a leading article in L'Osservatore Romano which purported to explode the theory of a quarrel between Pope and Duce as follows...
...Count Dalla Torre is massive, stocky, weighs perhaps 200 Ibs. and stands half a head taller than most Italians. His complexion is very fair and his hair almost blond. Withal he is of noble and ancient Venetian lineage, though he was born a Paduan. Even enemies find him affable, but few except his friends realize his extraordinary and sensitive keenness of mind...