Word: signer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During December rumors too vague to be set in type began to filter from Italy that a plot to dethrone the King and proclaim Signer Mussolini Emperor had almost succeeded...
...concensus of reports to date: 1) During November, Undersecretary for Aviation Italo Balbo and General Emilio De Bono, Governor of Tripolitania, perfected the details of the plot. (They with Signer Mussolini led the famed march on Rome [1922] which brought Fascismo into power.) 2) A letter from General De Bono to Secretary Balbo concerning the plot fell into the hands of General Pietro Badoglio, the Army Chief of Staff, and a staunch, loyal monarchist. 3) General Badoglio promptly called a cavalry regiment and two artillery regiments to Rome, ordered them to guard King Vittorio Emanuele and the royal family...
...Authors Oliver Wendell Holmes, Eugene Sue, Victorien Sardou, Tobias Smollett, Dr. David Ramsay, were first doctors ; and Dr. Benjamin Rush was a signer of the Declaration of Independence...
...that Europe was finished and American domination of the world had begun. A man without a church* he wrote "Jesus: A Myth" in 1925 (TIME, Sept. 20). Died. Elbridge Thomas Gerry, 89, father of Rhode Island Senator Peter Goelet Gerry, and grandson of U. S. Vice President Elbridge Gerry, signer of: the Declaration of Independence; of heart failure following a broken hip, in Manhattan. As onetime president of the New York Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, he deplored the fact that he inspired fear in juvenile delinquents and was known as the dreaded "Gerry Man." When this idea...
Died. Simeon Eben Baldwin, 87, twice governor of Connecticut (1911-13, 1913-15), great-grandson of Roger Sherman, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; descendant of four Connecticut governors; in New Haven, Conn...