Word: grandi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...does not want the Philippines," he replied. "You already have found them expensive." To clear the air of weighty matters, Ambassador Saito ordered another round of highballs. When someone asked him if he were not the world's youngest Ambassador he replied: "I am not so young. Dino Grandi [Italian Ambassador to Great Britain] beard and all, is far younger than I. . . . I've been dissipating all my life: whiskies and sodas every afternoon - all afternoon...
...Rome there was more news to excite the Italian War Office. Il Duce himself took over the new Ministry of National Defense, combining Army, Navy and Air. Marshal Italo Balbo became Chief of Staff, another reward for his spectacular Chicago flight. Benito's other favorite, spade-bearded Dino Grandi, returned to his old post as Foreign Minister...
Famed in Italy's politics of the past five years are two blackbearded men sometimes called "the twins." The other with the beard is Dino Grandi, onetime Minister of Foreign Affairs. There is a story that when II Duce ousted Signor Grandi from the cabinet last year he simultaneously sent Air Minister Balbo a letter informing him that his "resignation was accepted." Minister Balbo is supposed to have marched straight in upon II Duce, handed back the letter as "sent by mistake." That tale is told by antiFascists to illustrate their belief that Premier Mussolini fears his Air Minister...
...Grandi. Close to II Duce, he represented his government more recently at Geneva...
...Italo Balbo, who looks enough like Dino Grandi to be his twin, is Minister of Air. Arpinati is Under Secretary of the Interior...