Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hero. Deputy Roberto Farinacci, Secretary General of the Fascist Party, was greeted by a band and the wildest enthusiasm when he arrived at Chieti to take charge of the defense. Robed in a handsome gown stitched together by patriotic female admirers, he received homage on all sides for daring to defend the alleged perpetrators of a crime so malodorous. Anti-Fascist lawyers had refused to undertake the defense, professing horror. Fascist lawyers had refused, lest Fascismo be tarred with additional infamy. Above such Roberto Farinacci soared...
...Vittorio Emanuele seized his pen and made several scatches upon a parchment which had been indorsed earlier in the week by Il Senato. His sprawling autograph placed in the hands of the Fascist Government a legal instrument so powerful that Signor Roberto De Vito, Senatorial reporter of the measure, felt obliged to explain that "it is not the Government's intention to use this law as a means of persecution, but to apply it with prudence and moderation...
Died. Dr. Pedro Gonzalez, one-time Nicaraguan Minister to the U. S.; at Washington, D. C., of uremic poisoning. His son, Dr. Roberto Gonzalez, sped toward Washington from Nicaragua for nine days by horse, motorboat, steamboat, railway and automobile, but arrived one hour too late...
...friends at Parma, telegraphed her father for permission. When the answer was delayed she replied to entreaties that she "come along anyhow": "Non! I am a disciplined Fascist. Without permission from my Duce* I refuse to move!" Near Leghorn, squadristi (gunmen) riddled a railway coach which they thought contained Roberto Farinacci, Secretary General of the Fascist Party and "big personal friend" of Benito Mussolini. Signer Farinacci, having chanced to miss his train, escaped death. Foiled, the squadristi vowed that he had ordered them to murder numerous Masons at Florence (TIME, Oct. 19) and had then punished several of their number...
Gifts. President Green presented the usual gifts to visiting delegates from abroad: watches to Arthur A. Purcell of Great Britain, Donald Dear of Canada and Roberto Haberman of Mexico; diamond stickpins to Ben Smith of Great Britain and Canuto Varges of Mexico; a diamond lavalliere to Mrs. Donald Dear...