Word: italianity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...straight and accurate." Actually, nothing could be further from the truth, as the B.B.C. is as Red as they make 'em, and its distorted, lying and slanderous statements are equalled only by the foreign-language broadcasts from Moscow and the nightly French, anti-Fascist "news" bulletins in Italian from Nice...
Having recently returned from an extensive trip through Germany, I can testify to the fact that, contrariwise, the German and Italian broadcasts of the B.B.C. amuse the peoples of the Axis...
...month following this Neutrality Act Italy invaded Ethiopia. There was no declaration of hostilities, but three days after fighting began, the President called it a war. He invoked the Act and solemnly warned U. S. citizens not to travel on either Italian or Ethiopian liners. No arms were shipped to either side...
Latest to learn this lesson of modern geography is exiled King Zog, whose kingdom of Albania was seized by the Italians last April. Having spent most of the time since his flight from Albania at Istanbul, Turkey, Zog recently decided to transfer his home to France. Shortest and quickest route from Istanbul to Paris would have been by rail on either the Orient Express or the Simplon Orient. The Orient goes through Germany and the Simplon through Italy. Zog first arranged to travel by Soviet steamer from Istanbul direct to Marseille, stopping only at Peiraeus, Greece, and Alexandria, Egypt. Normal...
...precious talk about Giotto; and he urged the purchase and study of contemporary work by U. S. designers and artists. The Museum lived up to this so consistently that in 1925, when Dana was in Italy and a rich Newark lady sent him $10.000 with which to acquire old Italian things, he saved the money and persuaded her to let him spend it on American paintings. The next year the Museum moved into a $750,000 building given by Department Storeman Louis Bamberger, held a long remembered exhibition of New Jersey leather products and processes...