Word: augusto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Immediately afterward Secretary General Augusto Turati of the Fascist Party issued a proclamation: "The first gesture of justice has been accomplished. Now the accomplices of this youth must be sought out and punished...
...Augusto B. Leguia, president of Peru, "bantam Mussolini," addressed to President Calles an appeal: "I view with deep sorrow the religious conflict which is developing in Mexico, that beautiful twin country of Peru. ... I take the liberty of begging Your Excellency to incline your powerful will toward the re-establishment of harmony with the Church...
...fact that in the councils of Fascismo he speaks- not always softly-for the Vatican. At his insistance Roberto Farinacci, "the Scourge of Fascismo," long, right-hand terrorist to Mussolini, was replaced as Secretary-General of the Fascist Party (TiME, Apr. 12), by the comparatively mild and steady-going Augusto Turati. The latter, sharply prodded by Fed-erzoni, instituted an investigation of Farinacci's chief fiscal backers, who were jailed (TIME, July 5) on charges of abstracting funds illegally from the Agricultural Bank of Parma. Thus the Vatican's authority has seemed to wax triumphant over Fascismo...
From the back of the room, Augusto Turati, new Secretary General of the Fascist party (TIME, April 12) exclaimed with fervor: "Once again God has saved Italy!" Meanwhile the Premier's old friends recalled other instances tending to show that "his temperament is by nature fearless." It was told again how, when he was an editor in Milan, he used to keep several bombs and hand grenades upon his desk, in case his political enemies should attack him. Once, while writing an editorial, he set fire to the fuse of one of these bombs by accidentally resting his cigaret upon...
Turati. As the loyal mechanic stepped down, there stepped up into his place Signor Augusto Turati of Brescia, a newspaper man of milder temper. It was asserted widely last week that this exchange is designed to mark the end of what has been called the "Fascist phase of terror." The moderate Fascist clique, headed by Minister of Interior Luigi Federozoni, is announced to have won Mussolini over to a slightly less harsh and repressive policy. Last week the event of significant note was merely that Farinacci did as he was told, resigned. Observers opined that he will certainly be rewarded...