Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Window-Dressers Benito Mussolini and Neville Chamberlain have been intimately corresponding for months (TIME, Aug. 9). It was clearly no accident that the Italian Premier suddenly agreed last week to a British scheme of July 14 which had seemed as dead as Queen Anne. Spade-bearded Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, on orders from Rome, brought the moribund Non-intervention Committee to life by making this "concession'' to the British last week in concert with the German Delegate, Dr. Ernst Woermann -for Adolf Hitler had also suddenly discovered that he no longer objects to the British scheme of July...
...Soviet Union-since two-thirds of its area is in Asia-would "naturally" belong only to his Asiatic League. The U. S. would be parked in the American League. Thus the European League would be chiefly a cozy corner dominated by Britain, Germany, France and Italy-exactly the team Benito Mussolini has been trying to get going ever since he got its members to sign his Four Power Pact (TIME, June 19. 1933. et ante). Admiral Horthy, with a fine patriotic eastern European sense of the comparative unimportance of Asia and the Americas, picturesquely suggested that the Asiatic League...
...fact that Premier Benito Mussolini's second son Bruno had arrived with 23 brand new Savoia-Marchetti S-79 B's, considered among Italy's fastest and best bombers, on the Island of Majorca (TIME, Oct. 11), caused this Rightist base to be furiously strafed last week by three flights of Leftist bombers from Valencia...
Portraitists. Three European portraitists, two serious and one not, showed their wares to prospective patrons. At the Newhouse Galleries Austrian Dario Rappaport, skilled painter of such illustrious opposites as Frank B. Kellogg, Benito Mussolini, Pope Pius XI and Bebe Daniels' grandmother, took the palm for traditional solidity. At the Marie Sterner Galleries Arthur Kaufmann, capable and colorful German emigre, showed character studies of the late George Gershwin, Luise Rainer as a plain and pensive 17-year-old in Düsseldorf. At the Georgette Passedoit Gallery were 23 oddities by a healthily impudent 21-year-old Danish girl named...
...flattered when Will Durant included her, along with celebrities ranging from Benito Mussolini to Mary Garden, in a sober symposium on Life. (She wrote: "For me, life is interesting, entertaining, happy, if only I can have some activity for the restlessness that is in my heart...