Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What M. Vandervelde did last week was to announce that he will shortly preside, at Brussels, over the unveiling of a statue to the late murdered Italian Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, June 23, 1924, et seq.). This murder has been laid by many antiFascists directly to the instigation of Signor Mussolini. Consequently, last week, M. Vandervelde's announcement caused Il Duce such annoyance that he recalled to Rome the Italian Ambassador at Brussels, the Marquis Negrotto di Cambiaso...
Signor Benito Mussolini's Cabinet passed a series of decrees last week compelling all Italian landlords to reduce rents on their properties by July 1, 1927, thus...
...restrictions, and building has progressed rapidly in consequence. Now Premier Mussolini's new restrictions, supplementing others of a less drastic character (TIME, May 2), tend to pinch the very landlords who responded to his earlier appeals for rapid building. Did Il Duce, then, trick as well as pinch Italian landlords last week? Those who thought that he did not, declared that, by raising and stabilizing the gold value of the lira (TIME, Sept. 13), Signor Mussolini has made the new (lower) rentals which must be accepted by landlords worth as much (in gold) as the rentals they have been...
...Varese, Italian air port, famed airman Major di Bernardi taxied out on the flying field in a huge, spick-and-span, new plane. A man-child of 11 climbed nervously into the passenger's cockpit, was securely strapped...
Lombardi, Ltd. Every sizable town and city in the U. S. has been visited by Leo Carrillo in this play, now re-revived by Producer Murray Phillips, in which the hero, as head and heart of a modiste business, breaks a volume of English dialogue over an Italian tongue. After the old-fashioned pattern of all such plots, Lombardi must experience business failure and heart-jolt before he awakens to the fact that it is not the dazzling beauty of Phyllis Manning that he loves but the demure companionship of Norah Blake. A fashion show helps the entertainment, as does...