Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid off and repudiated by the U. S. concern (TIME, Sept. 9 et seq.). Dressy Mr. Rickett's importance survived last autumn's misadventure because his safe continued to be the repository for the concession for the subsoil rights to precisely the two-thirds of Ethiopia that Benito Mussolini wants. The contract gives Rickett five years in which to implement the deal with capital...
...Shall I also stress," continued the Foreign Minister, "how much I endeavored-and how much I rejoiced in so doing-to prepare for reconstitution of the pacific front of Stresa!"-i. e. the British-French-Italian decision, with Benito Mussolini as host at Stresa, to stand together against Germany's rupture at that time of the Treaty of Versailles by rearming in violation of its terms (TIME, April...
Significance. The releasing in London of such a British White Paper as this forced observers to surmise that either Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Premier Benito Mussolini have secretly almost settled their differences about Ethiopia, or else that the whole project of having British & Italian soldiers guard the Rhineland shoulder-to-shoulder was sheer diplomatic March Madness. The Dean & Chapter of Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral were so incensed that they refused to offer the usual Sunday prayers for His Majesty's Government and to the congregation Canon Thomas Arthur Edwards Davey cried: "We will not lead...
Meanwhile Benito Mussolini wound up an exciting three weeks of clapping all the kingdom's principal banks under control of the Bank of Italy-i. e., "nationalized banking." He decreed that foreign tourists who have been getting about twelve lire for a dollar will hereafter get around 16 lire by buying in their home countries new-style Italian lire travelers' checks...
...Rome this week the Dictator signed with Austria and Hungary a pact wherein Italy is said to guarantee Austria against the long-threatened move of Germany to absorb the Vienna regime. In an oration virtually predicting European war at no distant date Benito Mussolini cried, "The wheels of Destiny are running fast!" He made world headlines once more with a new version of the grand old news that Italy's guilds or corporazioni are some day going to be invested with the powers of Italy's political Chamber of Deputies...