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...Italy's Minister of Popular Culture, Dino Alfieri, last week ruled that Arnaldo Cortesi, Rome correspondent of the New York Times, must quit his job January 1, along with some 200 other Italian news men employed by foreign newspapers or press associations...
...Dino Grandi. Italian Ambassador to Great Britain, two years ago appeared in London wearing a suit made from 48 pints of skimmed milk. Secretary Achille Starace of the Fascist Party decreed that all party flags must be made from "this product of Italian ingenuity" a textile fabric called Lanital, invented in 1935 and introduced in the U. S. last winter (TIME, Dec. 6). Basis of Lanital is casein, the thick substance in sour, skimmed milk from which cottage cheese is made. Last week the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Dairy Industry applied for a public-service...
Downing Street. Last week Mr. Chamberlain invited to No. 10 Downing Street the Italian Ambassador, spade-bearded Count Dino Grandi, and in Mr. Eden's presence himself made, as Prime Minister, opening moves for quickly closing the breach between London and Rome opened by Il Duce's conquest of Ethiopia and sending of troops to Spain. Mr. Eden was thus subjected by the head of the House of Chamberlain to acute personal humiliation. Saturday and Sunday, for the first time since the Abdication Crisis there were meetings of the British Cabinet. A patient, drably-dressed crowd almost filled...
Confined at No. 10 Downing Street by gout, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain one day last week had Italian Ambassador Count Dino Grandi in for a cozy, significant lunch. Afterward, Whitehall buzzed with rumors that His Majesty's Government were about to permit Generalissimo Francisco Franco to open throughout the United Kingdom consulates flying the crimson & gold flag of Rightist Spain. Same day Soviet Russia hastily abandoned the obstructionist tactics by which she has kept the London Committee for Spanish Non-intervention from taking steps to carry out the famed British "Scheme...
Premier Mussolini, far from actually treading harder on Mr. Eden's toes last week, instructed spade-bearded Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi obligingly to ease up at sessions of the London International Committee on Non-Intervention in Spain, and this enabled the British to score a "diplomatic triumph'' for window dressing (see p. 24). Thus all was set for members of His Majesty's Government to come beaming with success to the final meeting of Edward VIII's Parliament last week...