Word: rudolfo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radioactive springs of Fiuggi. Actually things were growing too tense in Europe for Benito Mussolini to have his best soldier 2,000 miles away. At 10 o'clock on the morning of his departure Marshal Badoglio welcomed to Addis Ababa his old friend and colleague Marshal Rudolfo Graziani, handed over to him the authority to rule Ethiopia as "Regent." Fascist wiseacres wagered last week that Marshal Badoglio will not return to Ethiopia for months, that Marshal Graziani will soon succeed him as Viceroy...
Bright as the sun at noon gleamed the monocle in the eye of strapping six-foot General Rudolfo Graziani, commander-in-chief of the Italian forces in Somaliland, last week. At last things were coming...
...South. Fighting was fiercer, Italian progress more impressive. Troops under command of General Rudolfo Graziani were stretched not 60 but 400 mi. on a "provincewide front" from the Webbe Shibeli almost to the borders of British Somaliland. Fierce nests of Ethiopian sharpshooters and unseasonable rains that bogged tanks and trucks hub-deep had held up the southern advance for days, but now Italian troops, moving again in three columns, had crossed over half the Ogaden Desert, were drawing closer & closer to Harar, chief stronghold of Ras Nassibu, commander of the Ethiopian armies of the south in Ogaden. Scouting planes zooming...
Startled newshawks heard Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson thus announce Nicaragua's Vice-Presidential candidates: "Conservative, Emilia Nocha Morro; Liberal, Rudolfo Espino Sar." Soon came a revised release: Conservative, Emiliano Chamorro; Liberal, Rudolfo Espinosa...
Grandson Millet procured the services of Paul Cazeau, artist, onetime house painter, whom he urged to a prolific aping of the manner of Grandfather Millet. To Artist Cazeau's canvases Grandson Millet then affixed his grandfather's initials. In Paris he discovered one Rudolfo Perez y Montalbo playing a guitar on the streets. Impressed by the man's name and aspect, Grandson Millet pressed him into_ service as a connoisseur. The guitarist's job was to attest solemnly, wordily that the works of Cazeau were, in truth, the works of "that luminous master of the Barbizon school?Jean Francois Millet...