Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around the better to fight Naziism, the better to court a much-needed loan from France. Most important cabinet shift was the appointment as Minister of Public Safety of Major Emil Fey. who has command over all Austria's defense forces. An ardent Royalist, a personal friend of Benito Mussolini, he fights the idea of anschluss (political union) with Germany as reducing Austria to the status of a minor German province...
Venetians had been arguing about a road to the mainland since 1898. Long-range guns made Venice's isolation valueless as a defense. But it was still a pretty sentiment. In 1931 Benito Mussolini briskly ordered work on the road begun and that night St. Mark's Square in Venice blazed with Venetian lanterns and bengal lights. Opened last week, the road is 57 mi. long, 2½ mi. of it a bridge over the lagoon proper, strung on arches sunk in the mud. It runs beside the railway viaduct and between the two is a concrete groove...
...even Rumania, and all taking their orders from Handsome Adolf. In Fulda three weeks ago a conference of German bishops announced that good Catholics need no longer abstain from National Socialism. It was not impossible that should a Holy Roman Triple Alliance become a fact, Adolf Hitler, and not Benito Mussolini, might become Head...
Boxer Balance. The same ship that carried discountenanced Warlord Chang Hsueh-liang and his 17 "secretaries" from Shanghai last week also bore Benito Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister to China, going home for a vacation. Earlier in the week he had put the finishing touches to a deal started some months ago when Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law H. H. Kung visited Rome. Still owing the Italian Government is a balance of $2,000,000 in gold from the Boxer indemnity squeezed from the old Empress Dowager...
...city her magnificently landscaped Villa Sciarra in 1930 for use as a public park. That was soon after energetic, beauteous Mrs. John Work Garrett (who last week lectured on art before the King & Queen) had arrived in Rome, begun to displace other U. S. social arbiters. The handsome call Benito Mussolini made to thank Mrs. Wurts for her present was rich compensation for the fading glory of her last years. Last week her entire estate went to 77 Duce...