Word: emilio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exactly 10 o'clock members of the Grand Council of Fascism, followed by the Italian Cabinet, all in Fascist trimmings & trappings, marched into the great room. Goat-bearded Marshal Emilio de Bono, recalled last autumn from Ethiopia under a cloud, was there. Chin-tufted Libyan Governor Italo Balbo had flown over from Tripoli to attend the party. Near him sat his Fascist twin, Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, who had sped to Rome from London...
...Obregón, de la Huerta & Calles which overthrew and assassinated President Carranza. Calles, a superb executive during his four years (1924-28) as President, built up a potent political machine. After Obregón's assassination in 1928 he could afford to put in a Presidential puppet, Emilio Fortes Gil, and invent the National Revolutionary Party, a tight Fascist organization with a highly Socialistic program of paper promises for the people. Calles and his henchmen unionized Mexican labor, attacked the Catholic Church, quietly amassed huge fortunes, trained an oversized army...
Manuel Quezon was a law student at Santo Tomas University in Manila (oldest under the U. S. flag) when handsome young Emilio Aguinaldo, tired of the evasion of U. S. officials who, he thought, should recognize him as President of the Philippine Provisional Republic, started a revolt to run the none too numerous U. S. expeditionary force out of the Islands. Since the U. S. authorities were chary of all Filipinos at that time, and hence offering no jobs in the Island Government to brown men, Manuel Quezon went into the bush for a while as a major on Aguinaldo...
...Emilio de Bono, the Italian Commander-in-Chief. waiting to be relieved of his command rode ten miles beyond Makale toward Alaji, next important town in the Italian advance from the North. Through his huge staff telescope he could see it distinctly. He and the respectful officers round him knew that the General, about to become a Marshal, would never enter it as an Italian commander. Then the old man, leaving his Chief of Staff, General Melchiade Gabba, in command, drove through cheering lines of blackshirted Italian workmen along the roads they had just built, toward the coast and Italy...
...Quadrumvir jolted last week up to the Army's highest rank of Marshal and into retirement was goat-bearded, rheumy-eyed but able and sagacious old General Emilio de Bono. Under this Original Fascist the flower of Italy's hottest-headed youthful volunteers have gone out to Africa, avenged the 19th Century "Shame of Aduwa" and occupied some 10,000 sq. mi. The combination of young hotheads in the van with a very old Fascist behind them has been either extremely odd or touched with genius. Enemies of the Dictator have accused him of sending first to fight...