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Word: signore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Signor Benito Mussolini's ministers have constantly dared to call their souls and policies their own. One is Signor Luigi Federzoni, soft speaker for the Vatican, Colonial Minister. The other and greater is Count Giuseppe Volpi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Volpi Out | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

Last week, Count Volpi resigned as Finance Minister. He is known to have incurred the ire of Il Duce on several occasions-notably when he insisted that the lira be put back on gold at a lower valuation than that at first desired by Signor Mussolini. But from this it must not be rashly assumed that Count Volpi was "asked to resign." The irritable Duce has in other moods given his Finance Minister to understand that he must resist certain highly lucrative offers from the sphere of private business which have become especially tempting of late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Volpi Out | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...facilitate the "peaceful penetration" by Italian colonists of Dalmatia, which is adjacent to Croatia, the part of Jugoslavia from which Stefan Raditch hails. For three years Croat Raditch has blocked the treaty, driving the Jugoslav government to their wit's ends, since they are under heaviest pressure from Signor Mussolini to sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Throwback to Assassination? | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

During the Council debate French Delegate Joseph Paul-Boncour scathingly declared that the shipment was sufficiently "practical" to equip 90 companies of machine gunners. In fine, the Council was too water-hearted to denounce Italy for treaty breaking, lest Signor Mussolini should huffily withdraw his Great Power from membership in the League. General Tanczos, representing unrepentant Hungary, last week, said: "We are so well content that there is really nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: 50th Impotency | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...Italo-Jugoslav Treaties of Nettuno were virtually dictated by Signor Mussolini in 1925 and provide that Italians may colonize and thus peacefully penetrate the Dalmatian coast of Jugoslavia, which lies directly across the Adriatic Sea from Italy. For three years the Jugoslav Parliament has delayed to ratify the Treaty of Nettuno. Last week the hot-head students believed that Prime Minister Vukitchevitch was about to yield to Italian pressure and press for ratification. Mounted ominously the hereditary hatred of rival peoples who face each other across a narrow sea. Suddenly came an insult to fire the charge of hatred. Jugoslav...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Down with Mussolini! | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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