Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian bankers knew that Mr. Simmons had been received in private audience by their King (TIME, April 7), had been afforded every courtesy by Il Duce. They expected him to say something courteous in return. He doubled, tripled their expectations...
Cleveland?La Gioconda, May 5; Louise, May 6; Cavalleria and Pagliacci, May 7; La Boheme, May 8; Carmen, May 9, matinee; Sadko, May 9, evening; La Traviata, May 10, matinee; Il Trovatore, May 10, evening...
Some Italian editors echo Il Duce louder than others, but always loudest is young Editor Mario Carli of L'Impero ("Orders is Orders"). It was he who last year called Austria ''a miserable spitoon" when relations were strained with that country (TIME, April 22). His headline on the Naval Conference last week...
What had happened meanwhile in London was a trifle less dramatic than strangling wolves. Ever since Il Duce rose swashbuckling to power, flames of suspicion have been darting higher each year between France and Italy. Actual volcanic eruption was far off last week. In London all that Signor Grandi actually did was first to have high words with British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson in private, then to send a note around to the hotel of Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France...
Fascists were fearful lest a vital Italian War industry, motor-making, fall into foreign hands. A blast from Il Duce almost immediately shriveled the Ford-Isotta deal...