Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome no maxim is more rigid than the Fascist saw: "One cannot ask Il Duce the same thing twice...
Since British statesmen are well known to doubt almost everything they read in the papers,* Captain Eden's curiosity would have been natural, had he not recently popped the question to Il Duce in Rome and been officially answered (TIME, July 1 & 8). Previously in Rome, Premier Laval had gone even farther, making with Premier Mussolini a pact in which France gave Italy a "free hand" against Ethiopia (TIME, Jan. 14 & 21) in return for Italian support at the subsequent Stresa Conference on German rearmament. Thus last week Mr. Eden and Premier Laval knew they were asking Baron Aloisi...
...chocolate with pistachio nuts. Even Benito Mussolini's most scornful critics, Europe's Socialist and Communist Press, admitted that he has now fired his people with exultant zeal for conquering Ethiopia, plus hopes of absorbing Austria as a later move to ''restore the Universality of Rome!" In the general rush to enlist now sweeping Italy's languid, aristocratic youth even the Dictator's baby-faced son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, last week planned to quit his peculiarly vital desk-job as Minister of Press & Propaganda to become a flying...
...that they consider it a Holly wood invention this is the sort of picture which it will most notably enhance. However, even in black & white, The Farmer Takes a Wife is easily an improvement, in scope and movement, upon the play, based on Walter D. Edmond's novel Rome Hani, from which Edwin Burke derived it. Essentially, it is less a story than the portrait of a place and a period-the Erie Canal, a quarter of a century after it was opened in 1825. To shrewd observers, it was even then apparent that the canal, as the main...
...Rome says that Edda's dowry was 5,000,000 lire ($410,000). Last week Paris heard friends of Jose saying that her dowry will be 10,000,000 francs ($662,000) or 20% of the Premier's estimated fortune of 50,000,000 francs...