Word: milan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business houses, using 13 billions of French notes held outside of France as "a means of maneuver," had stimulated an artificial fall by false quotations. He said that "bear" gamblers had fallen into the trap and that the franc was persecuted on exchange in London, New York, Amsterdam, Vienna, Milan. In time the movement was reflected in Paris, by wide dumping of National Defense Bonds and "short" selling by importers to protect themselves from the falling exchange...
After the Armistice streets in many Italian cities were named Via Wilson, Via d'Annunzio or Via Fiume, to suit changing enthusiasms. To name a street for Mussolini is not enough. So it is reported from Milan that a "model city" will be constructed in southern Italy in honor of the modest Benito and that this city will bear "for all time" the novel name of "Mussolini...
...increasing their personal property. Even the soldier who had faced several years of hell on frozen peaks was the object of ridicule, jeers, and often the victim of brutal assaults. A brother of mine, who was an officer in the Italian army at that time, wrote to me from Milan that to wear a uniform on the streets in the daytime was to invite serious trouble, while a similar act at night was intense flirtation with death...
Europe has been thrilled by the gifts of Nino Rota Rinaldi, aged eleven, of Milan, who caused a sensation last month at Tourcoing, France, by conducting a performance of an oratorio written by himself. The work, The Childhood of St. John, was produced by a chorus and orchestra of 250 persons. Both the boy's composition and his conducting were pronounced excellent...
...regarded as a major work of Tiepolo, one of the leaders of the later Venetian school. The ceiling was painted in the latter half of the 18th Century for the Barbaro family, and glorifies Francesco Barbaro, founder of the family and defender of Brescia from the Duke of Milan. This work was done during Tiepolo's mature period after he had completed his famous decorations in the palace of the Archbishop of Wurtzburg...