Word: francesco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...denunciation of Protestant proselytizing (TIME. July 14). Last week he proceeded beyond mere denunciation. He organized a defensive-offensive body, the Pontifical Organization for Preservation of the Faith and for the Provision of New Churches in Rome. As president of this militant religious police His Holiness appointed newly-hatted Francesco Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani, 58, and instructed him to work in close co-operation with Basilio Cardinal Pompili, vicar-general of Rome. Well equipped is Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani for his new assignment. Born in Rome he knows its neighborhoods and people better than most of his Cardinal colleagues. As secretary...
Birthday. H. R. H. Alfonso Pio Christino Eduardo Francesco Guillermo Carlo Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, Prince of Asturias, eldest son of King Alfonso XIII of Spain. Age: 23. Date: May 10. Celebration: festivities in Madrid, signing of the Prince's autograph album by many a personage, announcement of decided improvement in H. R. H.'s health. (He has haemophilia? TIME...
...year since 1913. Approxmately one-third of the $250,000,000 was spent on old masters. Chief buyers: Collector Thomas Benedict Clarke, Banker Jules Semon Bache, Motorman Lawrence P. Fisher, Financier-Socialite Joseph E. Widener, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Capitalist Sam Adolph Lewisohn, many a museum. Chief buy: Delia Francesco's The Crucifixion bought from Anderson Galleries by Sir Joseph Duveen...
...brother Francesco was deeply concerned with the settlement of the Lateran Treaties. Through the hands of another brother Ernesto has passed most of the property purchased by the Holy See in recent years. Secretary Pacelli himself is a member of the Academy of Ecclesiastical Nobles...
George Palmer Putnam, Manhattan publisher, returned from Europe with the manuscript of an Anti-Fascist book by Francesco Nitti, nephew of onetime Italian Prime Minister, Francesco Saverio Nitti. Publicity was given Mr. Putnam's story that, in London, his life was threatened by Fascist...