Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amundsen had planned their Arctic continent-hunt two years ago, tried by airplane, failed, and looked about for an airship, which they found in Italy and bought, hiring her designer as captain and later including the captain-Nobile-in the title of the expedition "as a compliment to Mussolini and the Italians." Friction had begun before the ship left Rome. There was a scene when Riiser-Larsen, a big, strong, silent man, was reduced to tears by Nobile's vociferous demand for recognition and authority. "That man Nobile," Riiser-Larsen had moaned, "has more gall and conceit than...
General Nobile (lunching with bankers on Long Island, about to go home and be embraced by Mussolini, given a gold medal and a whole fleet of dirigibles to command): "I cannot continue this dispute while I am receiving such delightful hospitality ... I shall not say anything more until I have left the country...
...cure his jaw of a war-gas infection-which they had failed to do. The interviews he had obtained were "incidental," simply the result of his "reportorial instinct." (The visiting reporters nodded, impressed.) He had flown about Europe, seeing Lloyd George in England, Briand and Caillaux in France, Mussolini in Italy, Pilsudski in Poland, and the onetime Kaiser himself at Doom. The one-time Kaiser had been bitter towards the U. S., had blamed General Pershing (with whom Publisher Vanderbilt had had the pleasure of traveling part way) for ending the War. . . . Pilsudski, the pugnacious Pole, had looked menacing...
King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy has baptised President Nicholas Murray Butler's new Italian House project for Columbia University with two paintings, one by Bottini and the other by Petiti. The cornerstone is to be laid at 117th street and Amsterdam avenue, August 5. Mussolini promises to donate Friar of Assisi memorials. A library of 15,000 volumes is being assembled which will comprehend the entire Italian civilization, its only counterpart existing in Venice. Further contributions to the Italian house are planned by the Italian Government, which wishes to encourage "this worthy cultural enterprise...
...everyone knows, Signor Mussolini's most robust hate obsession is inspired by a skulking fear that the blond Pan-German tide may some day engulf Italy as the Teutons engulfed Rome, by pouring down through the Brenner Pass. This lowest of the Trans-Alpine highways (4,495 ft.) is now held at its chief strategic points by Italy and constitutes one of her most passionately cherished spoils...