Word: ils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With anxious, heavy hearts the 70 most potent newspaper editors in Italy crossed Rome's broad Piazza Colonna, last week, entered the gloomy, high ceilinged Palazzo Chigi, and waited in trepidation to be re- ceived by Il Capo...
...minutes most of them might be out of jobs. They had heard rumors that Signor Mus- solini proposed to merge all Italian newspapers into a single, syndicated super-news organ, edited by the Dictator's brother, pudgy, tortoise-spectacled Arnaldo Mussolini, who carries on the Mussolini family newspaper Il Popolo d' Italia (The People of Italy) at Milan. As the tall clock in II Capo's antechamber ticked ominously, the nervous editors dropped their voices to whisper pitch...
This means that Il Progresso, with a circulation of 81,000, undoubtedly shows a profit of $200,000 a year; that foreign language newspapers are phenomenally valuable properties...
...Il Progresso is but one of five Italian newspapers in New York City. Its most potent rival is Corriere d'America (circulation 53,401; 76,000 Sunday), which has been called the finest tabloid-sized newspaper...
Last week, the oldest Italian daily newspaper in New York, Il Progresso Italo-Americano (founded 1880), was sold to Generose Pope, president of the Colonial Sand and Stone Co., for $2,053,000-about twice the sum which Paul Block recently paid for the Brooklyn Standard Union...