Word: milan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milan, Italy, the Sultan of Sumatra made a tour of haberdashers' shops, bought 700 neckties to take home to friends...
...week, although written in 1933 by able New York Timesman Edwin L. James apropos of the Pact made at Rome in June of that year by exactly the same Four Powers. Away back before the 1922 March on Rome, Editor Benito Mussolini used to tell his journalistic colleagues in Milan that Europe could find enduring peace only by coming under the responsible dominance of the great powers of the West...
...Europe's Smartest Little Statesman." After Dr. Benes received the British and French demand that he yield to Germany most of the Sudeten territory of Czechoslovakia, it was smart to keep the Great Powers waiting nervously for 30 hours last week while in Prague the President and Premier Milan Hodza labored with legal experts, finally produced not a note of capitulation but a suave reply to Britain and France in which the Czecho-slovak Government offered to "arbitrate the whole Sudeten question under an old treaty with Germany which they had dug out of their files...
...MILAN--It was reported late tonight that Arturo Toscanini, famous conductor whose passport was withdrawn by Milan police, already had left Milan "and should be in France by now." The information was said to have been given to friends by the former Signovina Fornaroli, the wife of Toscanini's son Walter, and came after Toscanini's had been represented to be determined to sail for the United States Wednesday "at any cost...
...Hradcany Castle, ancient stronghold on the heights of Prague, Czechoslovak President Eduard Benes faced the crisis of his career. Fortnight ago the "maximum concessions" which the Czechoslovak Government believed it possible to make to Sudeten Germans without shattering its own sovereignty were offered in Premier Milan Hodza's "Plan No. 3," which Hitler promptly had the Sudetens turn down. The President then took over from the Premier, drafted and released...