Word: milan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council rose amid cheers for II Duce's kind of Capitalism. Next day he appointed his 21-year-old nephew, Vito Mussolini, to be editor and general manager of the Mussolini family newspaper II Popolo d'Italia of Milan, founded by Uncle Benito and edited after he became Premier by his late brother Arnaldo, Vito's father. Last week the first striking editorial to appear under Editor Vito's regime was also all about Capitalism-about the recognition by what II Popolo called the "ultra-Capitalistic" Roosevelt Administration of the Soviet Union...
...Sioux City was badly beaten. Governor Herring called out militiamen to help patrol highways in the western part of his State. Veterans of last spring's milk war in Wisconsin outdid their lowan colleagues in violence. Ten thousand pounds of milk were dumped from the vats of a Milan cheese factory; more than 100 other cheese factories and creameries closed voluntarily throughout the state. Near Marshfield a farmer trying to sell a load of wood was brutally clubbed. A picketer near Madison was shot and killed by a truck driver running a blockade...
...France in 1926, Jarboro hired a tutor to teach her the language. When her funds ran low, she sold the house in New Jersey, went to Italy. Four years passed before she made her début, as Aïda in the Puccini theatre in Milan. Later she sang in L'Africaine, for three years thereafter appeared regularly in leading opera houses in France, Italy, Switzerland. Last month she returned to the U. S. after seven years, showed Manhattan operagoers an Aïda really Ethiopian...
...Chicago has a planetarium, the Adler. Philadelphia will put one in operation the end of this year, Los Angeles later. Germany has eleven planetaria, Italy two (Rome, Milan),Austria one (Vienna), Russia one (Moscow...
Passing through the Metropolitan's narrow stage door Scotti managed a smile for photographers who waylaid him. He shook hands gravely with hulking Giulio Gatti-Casazza who had made his debut as manager of the Scala in Milan the night Scotti first sang there 34 years ago. Then he went upsteps to a dingy dressing-room, locked the door, took pictures of his long-dead father and mother from the little black bag and sat them down before a mirror. Slowly he smeared his face with yellow paint, donned a snakey-cued China-man's wig. For that...