Word: milan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...named by his extremely radical father "Benito Juarez Mussolini," after Mexico's great radical hero. He was for years editor of Avanti, Italy's No. 1 Socialist newspaper. When he broke with Socialism to found Fascism, he stormed out of a wildly yelling Socialist assembly in Milan with the words: "You hate me because you still love...
...means satisfied with this single feather in his cap, Dr. Aras did not go straight home but blinked his way across Europe, stopped off at Milan for a head-to-head with Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, Europe's youngest foreign minister. These two reached an accord ending much of the Italo-Turkish tension which has sprung from Kamal Atatürk's closeness to Stalin. Turkish fears that operations against her might take off from Italy's Dodecanese Islands, and Italian nervousness about Turkey's refortification of the Dardanelles. In substance...
...Mussolini & Hitler were overjoyed last week, but the real triumph was Dr. Aras'. He had converted a bad-blooded neighbor into an avowed friend. But even now he was not ready to go, home. Instead, he entrained for Belgrade to hatch plans with Yugoslavia's Premier Dr. Milan Stoyadinovich for the coming conference at Athens of the Balkan Entente (Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Rumania...
...call him "Chotzinini." In Manhattan he is known for his pithy paragraphs, his skill as an accompanist, his desire to make music accessible to all. Recently Chotzinoff began to have long talks with David Sarnoff, president of RCA. Last month Critic Chotzinoff went on a mysterious "vacation," stopped in Milan at the house of his old friend Toscanini. Cables and radiograms began to flick back & forth between Chotzinoff and Sarnoff and last week Mr. Sarnoff talked with Toscanini by transatlantic telephone. Next day the press carried exciting news that Toscanini was returning to the U. S. next December to conduct...
...developed that the bike plane's inventor was a well-known oldtime flyer named Enea Bossi, now in charge of stainless steel research at E. G. Budd Manufacturing Co. in Philadelphia. Steelman Bossi, unaware until newshawks descended on him that news of his "aerocycle" had broken in Milan, disproved any hoax by showing motion pictures of himself making the first human-power flight in history in Milan last Sept. 13. The story was kept secret because the aerocycle is shortly to compete for an Italian prize of $5,000 for human-power flight...