Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ethiopia arrived last week 105 Italian colonists, each the father of a family waiting anxiously in Italy. The most capable expect to receive, gratis, an Ethiopian farm of 66 to 125 acres, but for the first two years the colonists (and others who follow them) will farm communal tracts...
Placed first in line, and it would seem after honor, are ten drawings from the Italian masters of the Cinquecento. Studies of heads or hands, figures or groups they are small and delicately executed in the exacting mediums of the pen or the silverpoint. But all represent the beginnings of monumental works, religious paintings by such masters as Raphael and Perugino, Mantegna and Filippano Lippi. Of the sixteenth century there are included only two. They are a crayon and much larger in scale; a study by Veronese and a finished portrait by Luini of a young woman...
...Leftists' sudden reversal of policy was brought on by three days of the bloodiest Rightist bombing which Leftist cities have suffered since the destruction of Guernica. Over the sea from Majorca came a squadron of black-winged Italian bombers. High over Barcelona they loosed enormous bombs on the crowded, industrial and residential sections of the city. In five minutes over 400 men. women & children were killed, many of them literally torn in fragments, and twice as many were wounded...
...Italian Government: a statue of the Emperor Diocletian...
...days when Benito Mussolini was a rabid, stump-speaking young Socialist, he used to demand free lunches for Italian school children at the expense of the State. Last week by Fascist decree school lunches were made compulsory throughout Italy, but not at the expense of the State. Rich moppets will be charged enough to pay for their lunches and those of poor moppets as well. Rich or poor, every Italian school child will be required, before eating school lunch, to say this grace...