Word: milan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milan last week, with Achilles ("Pantherman") Starace, No. 2 Fascist and Party Secretary, in his retinue, sped Head-of-the-State Benito Mussolini to build up the morale of that industrial region where bitter unemployment persists. En route Il Duce cajoled Italian peasants at their harvesting, speaking from a truck, a threshing machine, a motorcar, a platform built like the prow of a ship, and from a Hitler-taunting replica of the ox-drawn battle carts with which the Lombard League in the 12th Century repulsed Teutonic Frederick Barbarossa...
...Milan, where 4,000 extra police had jailed all dissidents who might shoot at Il Duce, he had the sun-lit top of a 30-ft. tribune in Cathedral Square all to himself. He had hoped that the Milanese would march into the vast, empty square in nice-&-tidy Hitlerish ranks and provide a scene of disciplined might for the newsreels. The Milanese did better. They jammed into the square, clambered onto every pedestal, statue and ledge in the vicinity. The burly Duce, squinting against the refulgent sun, was obliged to wave his arms to get his flock to keep...
...august party sped from Milan to Cremona, Pantherman Starace told young men who prayed for jobs: ''Remember that Fascism promises you neither honors nor jobs nor profits, but only duty and combat...
...feature of this meet will be an attempt by Luigi Beccalli of the University of Milan to make a new world record for the 1500 meters. Beccalli, the Olympic 1500 meters champion, established a world record of 3 minutes 49 seconds for the distance in 1932. This record held until Bill Bonthron shaved that mark to 3 minutes 48.8 seconds last June...
...Foreign Minister was busy last week. Growing more & more nervous over his mounting influence in Austria and Hungary, Jugoslavia topped off a two-month press attack with a violent outburst against Fascist Italy and all its works. Published were entirely imaginary stories of strikes and riots in Milan and Turin in which dozens were supposed to have been killed. The semi-official Vreme of Belgrade touched the sorest spot of all with a sneering description of Italy's Wartime defeat at Caporetto and ugly references to the cowardice of the Italian army...