Word: signer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stronger than Love. Dario Nicodemi is fulsomely reported by various interested parties as the "best playwright of Italy," a claim which the adherents of Pirandello might dispute with some acidity, particularly on the basis of Signer Nicodemi's two plays this season. Stolen Fruit (TIME, Oct. 19) was the fair first and this is the bad second. It is a play of mother sacrifice for an unnamed son of her husband, whom she came to hate when the intruding offspring grew up to oust her own firstborn from his inheritance...
...When Signer Scialoja, Acting President of the Council, informed Munir Bey that "unanimous" was to be understood as "unanimous except for the votes of either Britain or Turkey, the interested par-ties," the Turks walked out, declaring that they had no authority from Angora to accept such a vote. This action amounted to flouting the League of Nations and the World Court, the latter having ruled that under the Treaty of Lausanne the Council was competent to adjudicate the dispute (TIME...
...Council's Decision. Before Signer Scialoja handed down the Council's ruling, he went through the form of asking the ostentatiously absent Turkish representative to appear and be seated. After a pause of 15 minutes, the Turks sent in a message that it was impossible for them to attend the meeting. The Council then ruled as follows...
Capacity to Pay. In preliminary negotiations concluded with the Italian Ambassador and Signer Alberti last summer, the American Debt Commission asked for a statement of Italy's capacity to pay. This was presented by the present Commission in the form of "24 monographs," collections of statistics bearing on the point. The Treasury had of course had its own experts prepare similar statistics. Mark Sullivan, one of the ablest and most reliable of the Washington correspondents, was last week responsible for the assertion that the Italian estimates of their capacity to pay were slightly greater than the American estimates...
...take an interest in a powerful motor car loaded with extra gasoline tins, which mysteriously appeared in an alley behind the hotel. When the police were informed of these doings, they responded with grim enigmatic smiles. Later they declared that the details of the plot had been known to Signer Mussolini for weeks; that Tito Zaniboni and General Capello had long been carefully shadowed...