Word: milan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Signora Galli, 90, aunt of Pope Pius XI, at Milan...
...Corriere della Sera, Milan daily, plaintively asked: "How shall we be able to buy from America grain, machinery, cotton, preserved goods, meats, etc., if we are not able to send to America our goods and the services of our emigrants? How can we pay our War debt of three and one-half billion lire if America refuses the only means of payment open to us-that is, the export of our goods and the labor of our emigrants...
Erminio Spalla, European heavyweight champ, sailed from Milan to meet Firpo at Buenos Aires. Spalla won his championship title last summer from Vandeveer, a Dutchman. At the time, Dr. Benito Mussolini saluted Spalla thus: "I embrace you. Now prepare yourself for the supreme trial. Having become champion of Europe, you must become champion of the world...
Maestro Giordano, composer of Andrea Chenier and Fedora, now very popular throughout Italy, has completed a new opera which is to be produced sometime in the indefinitely near future at Milan. He has written music for Bellini's play La Cena della Beffe which the two male Barrymores played in this country as The Jest...
Died. Giuseppe Ballignani, 73, director of the Milan Conservatory of Music for 32 years, friend of Verdi, Boito and other Italian composers, in Milan, after falling from the fourth floor of his home...