Word: signor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first and only novel by Signor Benito Mussolini appears this week, translated into English for the first time...
...Duce v. II Papa. The cold and formal relations existing today between the Government of Italy and the Vatican are due, in no small measure, to that shadow of mutual suspicion still cast by the original anti-Roman Catholic proclivities of Signor Mussolini, which loom so large in the pages of Claudia...
Many a Papist sincerely believes that the Dictator has not changed his spots, and considers him to be a purely secular Despot who tolerates and uses the Church for his own ends. Recently when Signor Mussolini felt himself strong enough to suppress all Italian Papist youth organizations, such as the Roman Catholic Boy Scouts, he did so (TIME, April 9). On the other hand Il Duce extends to Il Papa every formal consideration, professes a strong desire to negotiate a Concordat with the Holy See, and retains in his Cabinet as Minister of Colonies famed Luigi Federzoni, "the Vatican...
...terrier bitch belonging to General Nobile, also received a Roman Fascist cheer: "Ala-Ala-Alala!'!" She (8 lbs.) was declared by Radio Operator Giuseppe Biagi of the Expedition to have fearlessly yapped at and stampeded a polar bear (400 lbs., approx.). "Polar bear meat is very good," added Signor Biagi...
...meek, cowed Cabinet of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini met last week for the first time since he sensationally "rotated" (dismissed) Finance Minister Count Volpi and several other most distinguished statesmen (TIME, July 16, 23). "My ministers are rotated," explained Signor Mussolini to his ministers, "when each accomplishes a cycle of fecund activity. . . . The cycle of Count Volpi as Finance Minister was completed with the stabilization of the lira on a basis of gold. ... He has immortalized his name." The new Finance Minister, Senator Antonio Mosconi, a Venetian aristocrat, was next informed that he is expected to immortalize his name rounding...