Word: bolognas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five thousand Italian officers and a group of foreign military attaches tramped across a dusty field outside Bologna toward the grey hulk of a heavy tank. Maneuvers were over and Benito Mussolini, standing legs astraddle on the turret of the tank, was ready to deliver a final oration before troops were dismissed...
...games Il Duce threw two armies, totaling 100,000 men, into the barren rocky country between Bologna and Florence. There the Red army of attack began to hammer a Blue defending force. The object of Italy's General Staff was to test in the nearest approach to battle conditions that they could create all the elaborate mechanical devices with which munitions makers have been whiling away the quiet years. Troops will advance this week under shell barrages. There will be clouds of real tear gas to penalize those slow with their masks. Benito Mussolini is particularly anxious to find...
Next day was inaugurated one of the high spots in the Fascist public works project, an elevenmile double-track railway tunnel through the Etruscan Appennines between Bologna and Florence which will cut seven hours from the run between Naples and Milan. Because work on the tunnel was first started 20 years ago, it was inaugurated not by Benito Mussolini but by little King Vittorio Emmanuele III, who stopped in his private car at the tunnel's mouth to dedicate a fountain to the memory of 98 workmen who lost their lives while the tunnel was building...
...lavish so much of his genius on mediocre scores by his countrymen. But no criticism touches the Maestro so long as he feels that he is faithful to a composer's intention. Once he has made a decision nothing can budge him. He took a beating in Bologna three years ago rather than play the Fascist Hymn at what seemed to him an inappropriate occasion. No coaxing could get him to Bayreuth when Adolf Hitler discriminated against his fellow musicians who happened to be Jews (TIME. June 19). He took one of his stands last week when he refused...
Patriotic anthems have a way of making trouble for symphony conductors. Great Karl Muck was driven from Boston for not playing "The Star-Spangled Banner'' at a Wartime concert. Arturo Toscanini was beaten by Italian youths when he refused to play the Fascist Hymn in Bologna...