Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...release him. The Premier, no doubt with a muffled sigh of relief, accepted the resignation; for it was known that Signor Nava, a Populist or member of the Catholic Party, was not entirely welcome or at ease in an otherwise all-Fascist Cabinet. Within a day, Premier Mussolini appointed Count Giuseppe Volpi Minister of Finance and Prof. Giuseppe Belluzzo Minister of National Economy, thereby making his Cabinet all-Fascist. The only member of the Premier's original Cabinet, excluding himself, is Signor Luigi Federzoni, Minister of Internal Affairs, who, next to Mussolini, is the strongest man in the Fascist...
...Count Volpi. Count Giuseppe Volpi, scion of an old Venetian family, was born some 50 years ago. As a young man, he interested himself in Levantine trade and little by little became a recognized expert on Near Eastern affairs. He was nominated as negotiator of the Italo-Turkish peace treaty which ended the war of 1911-12. In 1922, Premier Giolitti appointed him Governor of the colony of Tripoli, where he did invaluable work in modernizing the port of Tripoli town. When Fascism appeared, he wholeheartedly embraced it and became one of Mussolini's faithful henchmen...
Salm. In Vienna, Count Ludwig Salm-Hoogstraten was picked by the Austrian Tennis League to play with some of his fellow countrymen against a German team. Count Salm-Hoogstraten, bored, went to Switzerland instead. Thereupon the Tennis League suspended him indefinitely for "insuborination...
Engaged. Miss Louisa Fletcher, daughter of Stoughton A. Fletcher, famed Indianapolis banker (Fletcher American National Bank), to Count Ernst Gottfried von Schmettow, Prussian...
Simultaneous with the nativity of rotoring in the U. S., the gigantic Count von Luckner, famed German sea-raider in wartime, declared he would spend two years circling the globe in Herr Flettner's Buckau, "to make rotorships known in all countries...