Word: counts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempted to dissuade His Majesty's Government from springing the booby trap of Sanctions, and explained over the long-distance telephone time after time that Benito Mussolini is no booby, last week had the satisfaction of signing with II Duce's son-in-law, Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, a general Anglo-Italian pact of conciliation, appeasement and concord. Having affixed their signatures, the Briton and the Italian clasped and shook hands with particular vigor and warmth. The Eagle of Fascism had made peace with the British Lion...
Since Italian diplomacy is particularly adult and the British is too, members of the entourage of Sir Eric and Count Ciano> said with aplomb that of course the pact is a perfectly cold-blooded piece of advantage-seeking on both sides and that if it ever becomes to British or Italian interest to heave it into Europe's dustbin, that is where it will go, with no hard feelings between the diplomatic professionals. They have simply tried to end the insanity of the British Constitutional Democratic Monarchy having ever found itself in a quarrel with the Italian Fascist Corporative...
...fighting. In these circumstances II Duce could and did contribute to maintaining the status quo in Spain last week by sending another 10,000 Italian troops to aid the Whites (see p. 23) and this did not seem to shock official Britain. In an annex to the pact, Count Ciano declared, with particular reference to the Balearics, that "so far as Italy is concerned the integrity of present territories of Spain shall in all circumstances remain intact and unmodified." This said nothing about the large Italian force at present in the Balearics, and Count Ciano may have given his "assurance...
...Bluebird) The Count*** by Benny Moten. The fine piano beat from Bill (Count) Basie is an example of his work at its best. The band itself, although not full of individual stars, has that swing peculiar to colored orchestras, giving a good, solid rhythm. Benny's brother, Buster, spells a bit of this disc with his lifeless accordian, but the damage is more than repaired by "Lips" Paige's trumpet work. Keep on the lookout for Basie's Kansas City Orchestra...
Cost of the Sun Valley development was about that of one of Producer Goldwyn's colossal spectacles-$1,000,000. When the skiing boom started, Union Pacific's Chair-man William Averell Harriman dispatched Count Felix Schaffgotsch, expert Austrian skier, on a 5,000 mi. trip to find the best skiing terrain on Union Pacific's extensive Rocky Mountain routes. Sun Valley-then a nameless dent in a State previously famed mainly for potatoes and Senator Borah- was Count Schaffgotsch's choice. Among its natural advantages: slopes free from timber, surrounding peaks...