Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Earlier in the week Signer Turati spoke kindling words to an open air Fascist gathering at Ravenna. It was Signor Turati, of course, who replaced the reputed terrorist Roberto Farinacci as Secretary General of the Fascist Party (TIME, April 12, 1926) ; and at that time Augusto Turati's policies were rated "conservative" and "conciliatory." His speech last week was instructive as an example of the pugnacity which even a "moderate" Fascist statesman must display...
...plot was frustrated and some of the ringleaders were arrested. Police are seeking the men higher up. One of the suspects is Roberto Farinacci, former Secretary General of the Fascist Party...
...performance of Beatrix Thomson, quaint, perhaps too pretty, but subtly pigeontoed. It is said that all Broadway was combed to find an ingenue who knew what a constant nymph was, without success. Miss Thomson, daughter of a British army colonel, is the wife of Actor Claude Rains, who plays Roberto the hired...
...everyone knows, the great schism of Fascismo concerns the efforts of former Secretary-General of the Fascist Party Roberto Farinacci to avenge his displacement from that post through the influence of Minister of Interior Luigi Federzoni, "the Vatican's softspeaker." (TIME, July 12 et ante...
...aristocratic, bland. His voice has a low vibrant timbre, which engenders fear. It is well known that he attends Mass every morning before seeking his Ministry. Perhaps less known is the fact that in the councils of Fascismo he speaks- not always softly-for the Vatican. At his insistance Roberto Farinacci, "the Scourge of Fascismo," long, right-hand terrorist to Mussolini, was replaced as Secretary-General of the Fascist Party (TiME, Apr. 12), by the comparatively mild and steady-going Augusto Turati. The latter, sharply prodded by Fed-erzoni, instituted an investigation of Farinacci's chief fiscal backers...