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...British newspaper contest to dis cover the great personage who has the shortest title and address, the winner pointed out that to address correctly and respectfully an envelope to King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy requires the expenditure of but eight letters from which are formed three words: IL RE ROMA...
...Italy things have a way of happening suddenly. At the beginning of last week there were the "big four" banks: Banca Nazionale di Credito, Credito Italiano, Banca di Roma, Banca Commerciale Italiana. Then one evening Italian businessmen picked up their evening papers, were startled to learn that the first two of these planned a merger, that directors would meet to ratify the terms within four days. Although the banks are said to have conceived of the idea all by themselves, admittedly "encouraging and advising" the merger was the Fascist Government which has promoted many an industrial consolidation...
...during the World War, becomes Minister of War. Rear Admiral Giuseppe Siriani, one of the most brilliant and successful seadogs in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12 gets the Marine Ministry. Finally the Ministry of Corporations goes to scintillant polemist and war veteran Giuseppe Bottai. As editor of Roma Futurista, Epoca and Giornale di Roma at various times he has had broadest experience with men and masses. As Minister of Corporations he will supervise not great in- dustrial enterprises but the Fascist syndicates or "Corporations" which are really employes' unions and employers' associations. Today with strikes ruled...
Attempted Theft. The Roma is the huge Bellanca sesquiplane which C. Sabelli was to fly to Rome last year. But her size and fame were no deterrents to six presumed thieves who last week audaciously attempted to take her from her hangar at Wilmington, Del. Bellanca guards forewarned by telephone frustrated the attempt and pleased George Haldeman, co-pilot of Ruth Elder's trans-Atlantic flight, now Bellanca's chief test pilot, who privately plans to fly the Roma whither publicity abounds...
Recently an effeminate scion pronounced "Roma" in conversation with Il Duce as though it were spelled "Woma." Instantly ablaze with indignation, the Prime Minister roared and rolled: "R-r-r-r-r-roma is pronounced R-R-R-R-R-ROMA...