Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, having decided on a "Man of the Year," hereby closes nominations. The five leaders in the reader-poll: Benito Mussolini, Harry L. Hopkins, Huey Long, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair...
...gang of political racketeers. In 1927 he made front pages again by preferring charges of drunkenness against a Marine colonel in San Diego, Calif, following a party at the colonel's home. Four years later General Butler himself was almost court-martialed for telling a Philadelphia audience that Benito Mussolini was a murderous hit-&-run driver. He was soon embroiled in a row with the Haitian Minister who was quoted as saying that a fort General Butler said he had captured in Haiti had never existed. After these highly embarrassing incidents, General Butler found it best to resign from...
...similar Permanent Disarmament Commission which was to have had one tooth: the signatories were to promise to "advise" with one another in case of violation. Last week the Conference bureau promised to discuss the U.S. draft next January and most statesmen bandied compliments with Wafter Wilson. Alone did Benito Mussolini's spokesman Marchese Meli-Lupidi Soranga rap out: "My Government may perhaps one day consider the question of control of armaments manufacture, but not before principles have been laid down in regard to quantitative and qualitative limitation of armaments...
Died. Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, 82. longtime (1914-29) Papal Secretary of State, first Cardinal since the 11th Century to hold that office under two Popes; of pneumonia following influenza; in Rome. In 1929 anti-Fascist Cardinal Gasparri and No. 1 Fascist Benito Mussolini signed with gold pens the famed Lateran treaties restoring the diplomatic and temporal status of the Papacy after a 59-year break...
Italy. Hotels in Italy were the most prosperous in Europe this year. Benito Mussolini's swift ships attracted travelers to the southern transatlantic route. When the tourists arrived they got more for their money than in France. Italian prices were slashed by government decree early in the year, railroad rates having been cut as much as 75%. Net result was a 25% increase in hotel business over...