Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Benito Mussolini is piqued, so is the whole Italian press. Last week Il Duce's annoyance at the good show Democracy was putting on in Paris caused many Italian papers to omit accounts of the British royal visit, provoked one to attribute this apocryphal quote to Queen Elizabeth: "I haven't seen anything but the horses of our guards...
Fascism, meanwhile, was putting on a somewhat pip-squeak show in Rome last week, necessitated by the fact that the Italian-Hungarian-Austrian Protocols have lost one leg of this never very imposing diplomatic tripod. Only thing to do was to make a face-saving announcement that Italy and Hungary now constitute a bipod as faithful as ever to the Fascist cooperative spirit, and for this purpose to Rome last week went Hungary's economic strongman, Banker-Premier Béla Imrédy, who had never before met Mussolini...
Today, Transradio news goes by teletype and radiotelegraph to 288 radio stations. It boasts an impressive list of beats, such as the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. In 1936, it began serving newspapers, today sells to 46, including the London Daily Telegraph, the Portland Oregonian, the Honolulu Advertiser and the Johannesburg (South Africa) Daily Express. Its 20-hour-a-day teletype circuit distributes 40,000 words of spot news. An editorial staff of 40 works in its main office in a Manhattan penthouse. Its 34 U. S. and foreign bureaus are operated by 132 editorial workers...
...yachts has apparently passed. Biggest news, therefore, that came out of last week's regatta was the announced plan to send a fleet of four U. S. Twelves to England next spring for a brand new series of races against boats flying the British, Scandinavian, French, German and Italian flags. Because Britain's T. O. M. Sopwith, unsuccessful challenger for the America's Cup in 1934 and 1937, is racing a twelve-metre this summer, and Harold Vanderbilt, successful defender, tried a hand at sailing a Twelve, Van S. Merle-Smith's Seven Seas, fortnight...
Thirty-four years ago, an ardent young Russian girl named Angelica Balabanoff spoke at a Socialist meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was no new experience for her. She had left her comfortable, stuffy, middle-class home at 17; studied at Brussels, Berlin, Rome; joined the Italian Socialist Party; edited a women's paper. As a speaker she had been cheered by radicals and chased by reactionaries until she lost all self-consciousness on the platform. But during her speech at Lausanne, she was distracted by the most wretched-looking human being who had ever appeared in her audiences...