Word: lukewarmness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently the President of the academy, a senator named Tommaso Tittoni, was stricken with paralysis. A prominent member, Professor Alfredo Trombetti, went swimming at the Lido last summer, drowned in the lukewarm Adriatic. Giocchino Volpe, secretary of the academy, has had three recent operations on his defective ear. But of all the academicians, most luckless is Antonio Beltramelli, Fascist author of Il Uomo Nuovo, "The New Man," a paeon praising Il Duce. To celebrate his immortality he dyed his remaining hair a rich and glossy black. The hair dye soaked into his skull, affected his brain, according to his doctor...
...Treasury's arrests and the Department of Justice's prosecutions. Evidence collected by Treasury agents was inept, failed to stand up in court. Little or no cooperation between the departments developed. Complaints began to arise against Secretary Mellon whom the Drys suspected of being, at best, only lukewarm toward Prohibition. A change to the Department of Justice, the Government's enforcing arm for all other Federal criminal statutes (except those of the Post Office Department) was soon suggested...
...paunchy Dictator indeed had reason to worry last week. Unmentioned in his catalog of opponents was the not inconsiderable figure of King Alfonso. For years the King has been less than lukewarm to the dictatorship, continually giving awkward hints of a return to parliamentary government "as soon as conditions warrant." A month ago Madrid cafes buzzed with gossip that the King was about to demand the resignation of Dictator Primo de Rivera as Prime Minister and appoint that elegant grandee, the Duke of Alba, in his place (TIME, Dec. 2). Dictator Primo de Rivera quashed the rumor, sternly announced that...