Word: signer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...violent Fascist quarrel was ended during the past week with a sudden, sharp shock. Dynamic Augusto Turati (TIME, Aug. 8), Secretary-General of the Fascist Party (and, in the opinion of some observers, the future II Duce), expelled one Signer Settimelli from the party for "grave and repeated lack of discipline," warning three others with a firm reprimand...
Earlier in the week Signer Turati spoke kindling words to an open air Fascist gathering at Ravenna. It was Signor Turati, of course, who replaced the reputed terrorist Roberto Farinacci as Secretary General of the Fascist Party (TIME, April 12, 1926) ; and at that time Augusto Turati's policies were rated "conservative" and "conciliatory." His speech last week was instructive as an example of the pugnacity which even a "moderate" Fascist statesman must display...
Such were words spoken at Rome last week by Gino Lucetti, a youth whose bomb glanced harmlessly off the limousine of Signor Benito Mussolini (TIME, Sept. 20), as the Premier was motoring slowly toward his office in the Palazzo Chigi, Rome. Signer Lucetti, some six feet tall, but with refined, sensitive features, confessed last week in a detached monotone. Spectators noted that he had thrust sockless feet into a pair of battered shoes, wore unpressed duck trousers, a collarless shirt, a saggy coat...
Throughout Signer Mussolini's speech, which was promptly hailed by Fascists as great, definitive and prophetic, he was watched by a young girl and a man greatly resembling Premier Mussolini, who sat together in the Diplomatic Gallery. These intent watchers were Dictator Mussolini's daughter, Edda, and brother, Arnaldo. They applauded fiercely when II Duce cried at last...
...months ago the directors of the Philharmonic Society of New York announced what other orchestra supporters enviously called "the catch of the season"-slim, fiery, volatile Arturo Toscanini of Milan engaged for 1927-28. The Philharmonic had had Signer Toscanini often before but always as a guest conductor. Now he would conduct 41 concerts, be a "regular...