Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concensus of reports to date: 1) During November, Undersecretary for Aviation Italo Balbo and General Emilio De Bono, Governor of Tripolitania, perfected the details of the plot. (They with Signer Mussolini led the famed march on Rome [1922] which brought Fascismo into power.) 2) A letter from General De Bono to Secretary Balbo concerning the plot fell into the hands of General Pietro Badoglio, the Army Chief of Staff, and a staunch, loyal monarchist. 3) General Badoglio promptly called a cavalry regiment and two artillery regiments to Rome, ordered them to guard King Vittorio Emanuele and the royal family...
...Sixty-five thousand Chinese workers at Shanghai began a general strike to celebrate the fall of Hangchow (see above). Strike leaders nailed up placards: "The Nationalist force has been victorious. The power of Marshal Sun Chuan-fang has ended. The time is opportune for the people to assist the movement against the War Lords...
Papa-President Calles resisted tears, supplications. Senorita Natalia Calles was united in wedlock exclusively by the Mexican civil power. Then, on separate trains, the bride and bridegroom sped to San Antonio, Tex. At Mexico City the Papa-President clamped down his censorship, forbade Mexicans to print that at San Antonio a Mexican bride and groom achieved union through the Holy Roman Catholic Church...
...come to court. Couples, no longer deterred by publicity, have rushed to divorce courts. But magistrates, appalled at such eagerness for separation, have used their discretion and published "prophylactic" details. Said the Hon. C. F. G. Masterman, historian, in London last week: "I wouldn't trust such power of discretion to an arch-angel...
...because that organization during the war gained enough strength to have a voice in the personnel of the football rules committee. This committee, although the game had become national in scope, was still largely an eastern organization. Harvard wanted it always to be so, for then the power of the Crimson on the committee would be great. Harvard has never wanted the middle west, the south and the far west to have equal representation with the east on the football rules committee. --Big Ten Weekly. February...