Word: benito
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dead men tell no tales," Benito Mussolini once reminded Count Galeazzo Ciano, little realizing that the son-in-law he ordered shot in January 1944 would prove a talkative exception. As Italy's Foreign Minister from 1936 to 1943, Ciano jotted day-to-day entries in a red diary. The first volume, covering 1939-43, appeared in 1945. The latest covers 1937-38, the years of the German annexation of Austria, the forging of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, and Munich. Like the first, it packs no great historical surprises, but sketches in a lively picture of intrigue...
...Axis. In 1937 he was plunged into a diplomatic scandal when, as he was about to board a train at Paris' Gare du Nord, he was shot in the groin by a French journalist named Madeleine de Fontanges, who claimed that he had ruined her romance with "My Benito" by advising II Duce...
Said the first Stalin cover story: "If peace is menaced by Benito Mussolini, at least, like an honest rattlesnake, he jangles his sword. Stalin acts without warning ... Exactly where Stalin stands on the question of overthrowing the U.S. Government appears from what he said last year in an address to the American section of the Third International...
With funds from a special White House emergency kitty, a right of way was hacked out of the jungle from San Benito on the west to Rama near the east coast. Then the war ended, and it was up to Congress to vote funds to finish the job. Year after year, Congress refused to meet an obligation that Roosevelt had contracted in his most offhand executive manner without consulting a single member of the Senate or House. Year after year, Tacho ponied up $30,000 a month to keep the road from going back to bush. This year Assistant Secretary...
...Capri, Raimonda Ciano, 18-year-old daughter of the late Count Galeazzo Ciano, and granddaughter of Benito Mussolini, announced her engagement to Sandro Guinta, 23, a blood descendant of Napoleon...