Word: capo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in Rome, the Cianos started cutting a social swath and Edda surprised the British colony with the "English" she had learned from U. S. Marine officers' wives in Shanghai. One of the Countess' expressions was "oakie doak." Her husband at this time became Il Capo del Officia Stampa del Capo del Governo (The Head of the Press Office of the Head of the Government), later was given the rank of Minister for Press & Propaganda. He never could understand why foreign correspondents do not write with the same pro-Fascist zeal which came naturally to him when...
...meanwhile, was rolling slowly down the African Coast. She went aground on Capo Blanco. The crew went ashore for assistance, returned to find thieves had stolen all their food and clothing. Somehow they floated Girl Pat again. Last week they wallowed into Dakar, French Senegal, for supplies. The French port authorities debated nabbing her but decided to wait for definite orders. Before these came, Girl Pat slipped out of the harbor in the teeth of a gale. Behind her in the hospital she left her mate, who said nothing...
...Communication with Il Capo del Governo is naturally difficult. He is very busy," the Fascist Baron told the French Premier apologetically. "Not only are his two sons at this moment en route to Africa, but even his son-in-law is now leaving for the front...
...Last week Stresa's 2,000 inhabitants were outnumbered by Fascist detectives, police and militia protecting the lives of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and his Foreign Minister Sir John Simon, Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin and his Foreign Minister Pierre Laval and Benito Mussolini, Duce del Fascismo e Capo del Governo who is his own Foreign Minister. All one could smell was fresh paint...
...erstwhile palace on an island where Benito Mussolini slept nightly last week in "the Josephine bed." Il Duce, once a reporter covering European conferences, kept the World Press fuming on shore, dashed off crisp communiques from the island in which he figured as "Head of the Government" (Il Capo del Governo) without bothering to specify which government. To their hearts' content Scot MacDonald and Lawyer Simon rambled idealistically on & on. Mussolini & Flandin urged the British to join them in direct demands that the League Council take punitive steps against Adolf Hitler's raising of a conscript army...