Word: augusto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hint of this eminently practical point reached the Fascist masses. The official Vatican paper, Osservatore Romano, thundered weightily against the degrading spectacle of beauty contests. Immediately following Prime Minister Mussolini's circular to the Italian prefects came an order from the Secretary General of the Fascist party, Signor Augusto Turati. Last month, he had ordered all "young and even little" Italian girls to have their skirts at least two fingers' lengths below their knees. Last week he altered his order to apply to all females, regardless of age, and specified a reasonable two inches for the below-knee...
Standing in the garden of the presidential palace at Lima are U. S. Ambassador Alexander Pollock Moore, widower of famed Lillian Russell; short-legged President Augusto Leguia of Peru; bland Ambassador Emiliano Figueroa-Larrain of Chile...
Latest ukase of Signor Augusto Turati, Secretary General of the Fascist party: ''Young and even little Italian girls should by their costumes give the impression of the severity of the Fascist education which has been imparted to them-their skirts should come to at least two fingers' lengths below their knees...
...Famed bandit-patriot Augusto Calderon Sandino, who is still defying some 3,000 U.S. Marines to capture...
...leader of these raids was Manuel Maria Jiron, onetime chief assassin for the late President Manuel E. Cabrera of Guatemala, and more lately a "general" in the guerilla army of Augusto Calderon Sandino, Nicaragua's brigand-patriot...