Word: roberto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Clever at currying favor with Il Duce is Verona's obsequious Prefect Roberto Lops. Last week he industriously circularized the Fascist gentlemen of Verona, urged them to sign a petition conceived to tickle the vanity of all-potent Benito Mussolini...
Unhesitatingly some 10,000 gentlemen of Verona signed last week Roberto Lops's petition begging Benito Mussolini to order that: 1) Women's dresses must not be translucent, close fitting or low cut. 2) Elbows must be covered. 3) Stockings must be some other color than "flesh." 4) Skirts for "young girls" must extend below the knee, for "young ladies" below the calf...
Other notable contributors: Arthur Crispien (Germany), Emanuel Radl (Czechoslovakia), Roberto Haberman (Mexico), Karl Kautsky (Austria). India's Mahatma Gandhi adds 54 words...
Keenest interest focused on the First Category, since its 16 members will constitute a sort of extraordinary upper house.* One name eclipsed the other 15 in significance?Roberto Farinacci. His role has been the most sinister in Fascist Italy, and the most obscure...
Originally swart, nervous, cynical Roberto Farinacci was famed as the Castor Oil Man of Fascismo. Politicians who rashly opposed Il Duce were ambushed and forced to swallow a pint, a quart, even a sickening gallon of what Farinacci called his "golden nectar of nausea." As Secretary General of the Fascist Party he wielded Ku-Klux powers of life and death. His last notorious, outrageous exploit was to warp the very fibre of Italian Justice and get off virtually scot free the Fascist murderers of the multimillionaire Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, April 5, 1926). Leading U. S. correspondents have since...