Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Opening of the Royal Academy's exhibition at London, with a collection of Italian art sent from Italy by order of Dictator Mussolini...
...Opening of the Royal Academy's exhibition at London with a collection of Italian art sent from Italy by order of Dictator Mussolini...
...funneled Italian freighter steamed into Gravesend, England, last week and tied up safely at its pier. Flags on other craft dipped a salute, sirens screamed. In London a relieved Lady Chamberlain telegraphed to Premier Mussolini that his ship was safe...
...anxious eight days the freighter which Mussolini had christened the Leonardo da Vinci, carrying a $70,000,000 cargo of Italian Renaissance Art, had been buffeted by one of Europe's worst storms (see p. 16). Escorted out of Genoa by an ocean-going tug, the Leonardo's captain had been instructed by Mussolini to keep in daily radio touch with the mainland, to hug the shore and in event of storm to put in at the nearest port...
...Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, had an idea for a great Italian Art exhibition to be held in London. She formed a committee on which were art wise Sir Joseph Duveen, Roger Fry, Viscount Lascelles (Princess Mary's husband), Sir William Llewellyn. They wrote a letter to Premier Mussolini who became interested, put Dr. Modigliani in charge of a committee...