Word: signor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Turati. As the loyal mechanic stepped down, there stepped up into his place Signor Augusto Turati of Brescia, a newspaper man of milder temper. It was asserted widely last week that this exchange is designed to mark the end of what has been called the "Fascist phase of terror." The moderate Fascist clique, headed by Minister of Interior Luigi Federozoni, is announced to have won Mussolini over to a slightly less harsh and repressive policy. Last week the event of significant note was merely that Farinacci did as he was told, resigned. Observers opined that he will certainly be rewarded...
Since Barrister Farinacci has never before exercised his profession to the extent of appearing in court to plead a case, the "for- mula" under which he now appears was reverently admired by connoisseurs of legal quibbling. Suave, Farinacci remarked to the presiding justice, Signor Danza, last week: "I have never appeared before so courteous a judge." Bland, Signor Danza replied: "Nor have I ever listened to so able a lawyer...
Dumini. Whereas Signor Matteotti is alleged to have been kidnaped in a motor car and stabbed to death?his body having been recovered in such a state of decomposition as to make the cause of death uncertain?the testimony . of Amerigo Dumini, chief prisoner, in his own behalf, was thus...
Between the lines of Signor Scialoja's bland pronouncement, diplomats read the disheartening truth that the world is not yet ready to disarm. For the past fortnight the heads of many governments have been scurrying about looking for a "formula" under which postponement could be effected without branding any nation as unwilling to disarm. France and England have been especially anxious not to incur this disagreeable onus of responsibility-hence the hasty and secret consultation among Premier Briand, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, and Sir Eric Drummond, the ever tactful Secretary General to the League of Nations (TIME...
...Vittorio Emanuele seized his pen and made several scatches upon a parchment which had been indorsed earlier in the week by Il Senato. His sprawling autograph placed in the hands of the Fascist Government a legal instrument so powerful that Signor Roberto De Vito, Senatorial reporter of the measure, felt obliged to explain that "it is not the Government's intention to use this law as a means of persecution, but to apply it with prudence and moderation...