Word: signor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some weeks ago alert Prime Minister Benito Mussolini ferreted out the incident. Remembering the "consular agreement" which provides that Italy may settle the estate of any Italian citizen who dies while living temporarily in the U. S. and vice versa, Signor Mussolini instructed Consul Emanuele Grazzi at New York to file claim for the Comincio savings...
...Eloquent Signor Grazzi presented the claim to Surrogate James A. Foley in Manhattan. Other European diplomats watched the test case closely. If it were fixed by precedent that foreign countries could lay hands on the unclaimed estates of their citizens domiciled in the U. S., they might expect a neat annual revenue from this source. Italy might get as much as $100,000 yearly in New York State alone, where at least $5,000,000 in claims by other nations were ready for presentation...
...Born. To Signor Tito Schipa, tenor, and Signora Schipa; a daughter. Tenor Schipa, singing in Florence, Italy, received the following cable from his wife in Beverly Hills. Cal.: "Not Tito Jr., tenor, but Giuliana, coloratura soprano, arrived last night. All well...
...hint of this eminently practical point reached the Fascist masses. The official Vatican paper, Osservatore Romano, thundered weightily against the degrading spectacle of beauty contests. Immediately following Prime Minister Mussolini's circular to the Italian prefects came an order from the Secretary General of the Fascist party, Signor Augusto Turati. Last month, he had ordered all "young and even little" Italian girls to have their skirts at least two fingers' lengths below their knees. Last week he altered his order to apply to all females, regardless of age, and specified a reasonable two inches for the below-knee...
Cabinet posts not held by Il Duce are: Justice, Finance, Public Instruction, Communications, National Economy. Senator Luigi Federzoni, famed "Soft Speaker of the Vatican," from whom Signor Mussolini took the Ministry of Colonies last year (TIME, Dec. 31), was last week elected President of the Senate...