Word: governo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started cutting a social swath and Edda surprised the British colony with the "English" she had learned from U. S. Marine officers' wives in Shanghai. One of the Countess' expressions was "oakie doak." Her husband at this time became Il Capo del Officia Stampa del Capo del Governo (The Head of the Press Office of the Head of the Government), later was given the rank of Minister for Press & Propaganda. He never could understand why foreign correspondents do not write with the same pro-Fascist zeal which came naturally to him when he was himself a reporter...
...Communication with Il Capo del Governo is naturally difficult. He is very busy," the Fascist Baron told the French Premier apologetically. "Not only are his two sons at this moment en route to Africa, but even his son-in-law is now leaving for the front...
...Stresa's 2,000 inhabitants were outnumbered by Fascist detectives, police and militia protecting the lives of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and his Foreign Minister Sir John Simon, Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin and his Foreign Minister Pierre Laval and Benito Mussolini, Duce del Fascismo e Capo del Governo who is his own Foreign Minister. All one could smell was fresh paint...
...palace on an island where Benito Mussolini slept nightly last week in "the Josephine bed." Il Duce, once a reporter covering European conferences, kept the World Press fuming on shore, dashed off crisp communiques from the island in which he figured as "Head of the Government" (Il Capo del Governo) without bothering to specify which government. To their hearts' content Scot MacDonald and Lawyer Simon rambled idealistically on & on. Mussolini & Flandin urged the British to join them in direct demands that the League Council take punitive steps against Adolf Hitler's raising of a conscript army...
...scotch rumors buzzing in the world press last week, this unprecedented announcement was made at Rome's Palazzo Venezia, thick-walled executive sanctum of the Dictator: "Her Excellency Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of II Capo del Governo, is not with child...