Word: countesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busy to grow old!" he has said. When his daughter Edda, Countess Ciano di Cortellazzo, recently returned from Shanghai where her husband was Italian Minister, photographs of her baby son Fabbrizio were barred from Italian newspapers which were further forbidden to mention Il Duce as a grandfather...
...last week the Dictator joined Count & Countess Ciano at the Adriatic sea resort of Riccione. On the beach Bambino Fabbrizio patted with his pink palms Grandpa Mussolini's suntanned pate. Later they drove to Il Duce's estate near Predappio where he was born, for a celebration in which only neighboring villagers took part. A few old friends brought simple presents. Italian editors knew better than to mention what Benito Mussolini would like to conceal, that this was his 50th birthday...
Lolita Sheldon Armour, relict of Meat-Packer Jonathan Ogden Armour, paid $1,000,000 cash* to the estate of Ethel Field Beatty, Countess Beatty, daughter of Marshall Field, for a small (53.2 x 150.5 ft.) lot on the northeast corner of Chicago's State & Madison Streets, "world's busiest corner." Bought t»y Marshall Field in 1876 for $53,390, now part of the site of a department store, it returns $60,000 annually, is assessed...
...teach it to Italian women is the chief function of the women's section of the Fascist Party, the Fasci Femminili (Women's Groups). Its presidency is Italy's top political job for women. Last week Mussolini gave the Fasci Femminili a new president: Countess Bianca Pio di Savoia...
...chief of this propaganda, Countess Bianca, 35, is slim, aggressive and ambitious. She manages to dress smartly in clothes designed by Italian dressmakers. She spends part of every year with her Spanish-born mother-in-law in Madrid. Longtime head of the fascio in the Garbatella slum district of Rome, she helps many a poor family out of her own purse...