Word: signor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took it into his head last week to take the waters at Montecatini, near Lucca in Tuscany. But it never occurred to him that that section of Tuscany was homogeneously Fascist. Not long after he had entered the hotel, swarms of Black Shirts scooted down the mountains, congregated before Signor Amendola's hotel, groaned, booed, hissed. Finding little satisfaction in this, the crowd began to surge backward and forward, like a busy battering ram, in an effort to break the police cordons thrown round the building. Eventually several Fascisti dashed by the police, entered the hotel, chased Signor Amendola...
Deputy Giovanni Conti and Signor Curseio Suckert pricked each other's faces with swords until blood blinded them and physicians stopped the duel. The first gentleman had objected to an article which the second gentleman had written. The fight followed a recent reaction against sword-duelling which was called a "silly survival of Romanticism...
Shortly after, Signor Cesare Nava, Minister of National Economy, called at the Palazzo Chigi, where the Premier resides. Ill health obliged him to resign and he hoped that the Premier would at once release him. The Premier, no doubt with a muffled sigh of relief, accepted the resignation; for it was known that Signor Nava, a Populist or member of the Catholic Party, was not entirely welcome or at ease in an otherwise all-Fascist Cabinet. Within a day, Premier Mussolini appointed Count Giuseppe Volpi Minister of Finance and Prof. Giuseppe Belluzzo Minister of National Economy, thereby making his Cabinet...
...Nava. Signor Cesare Nava was merely a political pawn. Mussolini needed him at one time for his pro-Vatican policy but, as it is now clearly recognized that that policy has been advanced as far as possible, Nava became an anomaly in the Cabinet and was virtually removed to make room for a Fascist...
Died. Professor Giacomo Boni, 66, archaeologist, who became famed through his researches into the antiquities of Rome and was director of excavations at the Forum; on the Palatine Hill, at Rome, from an apoplectic stroke. King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Benito Mussolini sent condolences to his family. Signor Cremonesi, Royal Commissioner of Rome (equivalent of mayor), sent in the name of the Eternal City a guard of honor to the mortuary, announced that the funeral expenses would be borne by the city...