Word: grandi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...success of "Mexico" is symbolic of another important change, the development of a more international point of view among the rank and file. The significance of the Hoover-Laval and Hoover-Grandi conversations, which would not have occurred but for the depression, has sunk deeply into the American mind. The posibility that Canada may desert the gold standard, brings home as nothing else could the interdependence of nations...
Members of the University interested in Italy and Itale-American relations will have the opportunity to hear a talk by Judge Frank Leverent, well-known authority on Italian affairs on "The Significance of Grandi's Visit" at 8 o'clock tonight in Phillips Brooks House...
Three days later, however, 14 persons appeared outside the White House as "hunger marchers." In a cold drizzle they unfurled their banners ("Mr. Hoover, We Demand Food & Lodging," "Mr. Hoover You Have Money for the Entertainment of the Fascist Assassin Grandi."). Promptly the police pounced on them, arrested all 14 for parading without a permit. Their leader, one Herbert Benjamin, loudly explained that when Congress sits (Dec. 7), 1,300 "hunger marchers" would be in Washington demonstrating for relief...
Patriot. Fortnight ago in Philadelphia, one Orlandi Spartaco, 26, jumped on the running board of a car carrying Dino Grandi, Fascist Italy's visiting Foreign Minister. Jabbering, "Down with Grandi! Down with Fascism!" Anti-Fascist Spartaco was dragged off to jail, sentenced to two riot." To years Governor imprisonment Gifford for Pinchot "inciting to last week sleek, smiling, politic Minister Grandi wired : "I have not the slightest intention of interfering with the administration of justice in this country, but I feel that I could make a personal appeal to you to take into consideration the possibility...
...Right there ... on that spot." Captain Charles Russell Train, the President's naval aide, directed Signor Grandi where to stand on the White House portico to be photographed. Clicking his heels obediently, the Foreign Minister repeated fearfully: "On the spot...