Word: palazzos
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...hotel bedroom window calmly puffing a cigaret and training a high-power rifle upon the balcony of Signor Mussolini's office, from which II Duce was shortly to deliver his Armistice Day: address. A special military tribunal sat upon the case last week in the grim Roman Palazzo di Giustizia; but the prisoner faced only the normal Italian criminal law. Recent legislation providing the death penalty for attempts on the Premier's life is not retroactive (TIME, Nov. 15, 22), and would-be-assassin Tito Zaniboni faced, last week, a maximum penalty of 27 years in jail. His bravado...
Signor Benito Mussolini signed a peace treaty last week which gravely imperils the peace of the Balkans. In the suave setting of his great office in the Palazzo Chigi he staged the overture by welcoming and delicately flattering a poetess, the Countess Bethlen, wife of Hungarian Premier Count Stephen Bethlen...
When they grasped hands in the Palazzo Chigi both knew that Italy has recently signed treaties of "friendship, arbitration and amity" with Austria, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania. The one country lacking to complete the ring of treaties encircling Jugoslavia was Hungary. Therefore, last week, when the Italo-Hungarian treaty* was signed, the Fascist press burst into such a eulogy of Il Duce as it has seldom before achieved. But what did Hungary get out of this pen scratching...
Sirs: I have just received the letter from Florence, Italy, you forwarded to me, stat ing that Contessa Edith Rucellai, of Palazzo Rucellai, Florence, is assembling an Inter national Exhibition of cartoons and caricatures for the benefit of a Florentine charity, and would like to have the U. S. represented. In view of the fact that the countess learned of the American Association of Cartoonists and Caricaturists through TIME, we hope you will announce that the Association would be glad to receive and forward original cartoons and caricatures done by any professional artist. No ceremony or fee is attached...
...delegation of civic patriots from Caltagirone, Sicily, sought the dark, high-ceilinged office of Signor Mussolini in the Palazzo Chigi last week and humbly petitioned that he would deign to raise their region to the rank of a province...