Word: raceabout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, popped back to safety. In a letter to Secretary of the Navy Adams he deplored that his remarks before Philadelphia's Contemporary Club-in which he told a story of Prime Minister Mussolini's streaking heedlessly on after running down a small child with his raceabout (TIME, Feb. 9)-had "caused embarrassment to the Government." He had understood, he said, that his talk would be "confined to the limits of the four walls." Instead of court-martial, the Navy Department then decided to administer this small slice of humble pie: ''You are informed . . . that...
Meantime, pictures of Mussolini in his raceabout appeared all over the world last week, except in Italy. Manhattan's hotly anti-Fascist 77 Nuovo Hondo published a letter from an unnamed Italian fixing the time of the alleged accident at 2:30 p. m., Sept. 14, 1930. Excerpt: "Everybody knows about the case at San Quirito, yet no one has the courage to speak...
...whistled a much different tune from that of last Spring. In May and June, on his raceabout tour of Northern Italy, he hurled bombast from stumps and palace balconies, defied France, flayed other governments (especially Great Britain's) for clumsy mishandling of unemployment. But now, in October, his sap having cooled, II Duce spoke at calm, significant length...