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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...GREATEST CELEBRATION OF ITS KIND EVER IN DOWNSTATE ILLINOIS BUT THEY WERE DIXON'S INVITATIONS AND DIXON SET THE DATE MANY MONTHS AGO AND WITH NO INKLING THAT IT INTERFERED WITH THE MILWAUKEE CONVENTION. SO FAR AS DIXON IS CONCERNED, NO REVELRY WAS RUINED. BOB HOPE AND JERRY COLONNA WERE AMONG THOSE WHO MADE BOTH DATES. ASK THEM IF ANYTHING RUINED THE REVELRY IN EITHER SPOT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 13, 1941 | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...Italian quarters - it was the 18th anniversary of Mussolini's march on Rome-fruit peddlers and bootblacks told enquiring reporters v/hat they thought of Italy's war on Greece, but would not give their names or addresses, lest they be accused of belonging to the quinta colonna (fifth column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Crisis Eclipsed | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Within one hour of this announcement, Franklin Roosevelt instructed lanky, prim William Phillips, U. S. Ambassador to Italy, to call on Premier Mussolini. Afterwards Ambassador Phillips saw Foreign Minister Ciano twice. And in Washington the Italian Ambassador. Prince Ascanio Colonna, visited Under Secretary of State Welles and both stalked up the street, flecked with the shadows of spring foliage, to call on the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Within One Hour | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...Benito Mussolini. That the U. S. Government was putting all possible "pressure" on Italy to keep the peace was made clear next day when Ambassador Phillips had his third meeting of the week with Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and, in Washington, President Roosevelt received Italian Ambassador Prince Ascanio Colonna. Benito Mussolini was reported to have sent this message to Franklin Roosevelt: "Does the United States understand my position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Fleets to the East | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt held a portentous conference with Italian Ambassador Don Ascantlo Colonna today while in far off Tokyo U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew abruptly cancelled plans for a visit to Washington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 5/3/1940 | See Source »

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