Word: palermo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles of people-packed streets, Cardinal Pacelli stopped briefly in the Cathedral. Then he went to the sumptuous mansion of the Countess of Olmo, Argentina's richest woman landowner. There he occupied an austere apartment, containing, at his request, the minimum of necessary furniture. In the centre of Palermo Park, one of the world's largest, was erected a great cross, 100 ft. high, of white stucco, with great altars on all four sides. There Cardinal Pacelli joined with four other Princes of the Church-Verdier of Paris, Hlond of Poland, Cerejeira of Portugal and Leme da Silviera...
...York would go rich Contractor Patrick McGovern and onetime supreme Court Justice Daniel Florence Cohalan. President Mary C. Duffy of the Catholic Daughters of America sailed last week. From Australia went Premier Edmond John Hogan of Victoria. Among the visiting Cardinals: Lorenzo Lauri, Papal Legate, Paris' Verdier. Palermo's Lavitrano, Belgium's van Roey, Poland's Hloud, Westminster's Bourne. Shipping lines got up special tours, arranged for masses to be held on board. In Dublin Bay many a liner will serve as a hotel for Congress visitors, among them the Italian Satnrnia, which sailed...
...last week marked one of the last stages in a campaign that began in May 1926 when Benito Mussolini decided that the secret terrorist organization known as the Sicilian Mafia, the "Black Hand," was a blot on the name of Italy. He commis- sioned Fascist Prefect Cesare Mori of Palermo to eradicate...
...Mori were jammed with evidence of more than 100 murders, the first of these great mass trials began (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927). Fascist prosecutors rushed from Rome to Sicily. In May 1929, 150 Mafisti were convicted at Termini Imerese. In January 1930, 170 more were sent to jail at Palermo. In July of the same year nine were given life sentences at Agrigento. Last week's trial nearly finishes...
Last week the U. S. Supreme Court rose for the summer. Chief Justice Hughes prepared to sail for a vacation at Palermo. Justice Holmes returned to his home at Beverly Farms, Mass, to read and rest. Justice Brandeis hurried away to his sum mer cottage at Chatham near Cape Cod. The golf courses about Buena Vista Spring, Pa. drew Justice Butler. Justice Stone waited for warmer weather before going to fish on his own private island near Isle au Haut off the coast of Maine. Justice Sutherland will spend the summer quietly at Burlingame, Calif. Justice Roberts will farm strenuously...