Word: leader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signor Benito Mussolini, The Head of the State, The Leader of Fascismo, permitted a fair trial last week to onetime Socialist. Deputy Tito Zaniboni (TIME, Nov. 16, 1925 et seq.) who was arrested at his hotel bedroom window calmly puffing a cigaret and training a high-power rifle upon the balcony of Signor Mussolini's office, from which II Duce was shortly to deliver his Armistice Day: address. A special military tribunal sat upon the case last week in the grim Roman Palazzo di Giustizia; but the prisoner faced only the normal Italian criminal law. Recent legislation providing the death...
...onetime Sergeant Stimson crosses another stream at the invitation of another U. S. President. This time it is the Gulf Stream, for last week Mr. Stimson packed his grip and left Manhattan for Nicaragua, where he travels as special representative of President Coolidge. He may interview among others Revolutionary Leader Sacasa; after a month will return to make reports, recommendations. Republicans hope that, through his intervention, the marines may be withdrawn from Nicaragua before their presence can be made an issue in the 1928 presidential campaign...
...front of an attentive court stood the tall, pale figure of an acknowledged leader of the American bar, one of the most distinguished public servants of his generation, who was presenting the argument against the validity of the amendment...
...Nationalists northward from Shanghai against me (TIME, March 28 et seq.) is of international importance. If Bolshevism triumphs in China, it will triumph throughout the world. The Great Powers must help me to push the Nationalists back, South of the Yangtze River. Then I will treat with their military leader, Chiang Kaishek, on a brotherly basis. With him I have no quarrel, for I hear that in his heart he too wants to get rid of the Bolsheviks. Only two Chinese parties would then face each other across the Yangtze, and it should not be hard to establish a great...
...civilization of the Labour party went a step further with the marriage of the daughter of the labor leader, J. H. Thomas, which was a test of the Labor Party. They met it magnificently. The editor of "Tailor and Cutter" proclaimed that the guests at the wedding were sartorially unassailable. Not only did they wear coats and neckties, they wore cutaways and cravais. The editor was tremendously relieved: "Labor has grown up, has assumed responsibility and gone to a good tailor. . . . . There were leading Conservatives and Liberals present with lords and men of great possessions, but labor held...