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Word: signore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Picking up a sheaf of reports, Signor Mussolini then quietly settled down to quote evidence that Teutons are not being oppressed in the former Lower Tyrol, now called by Italians the Higher Adige. Declaring that 15 German language newspapers are still printed in the Higher Adige, Il Duce asked rhetorically: "Is this Fascist barbarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Clear & Clever | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...Finally Signor Mussolini delivered a very suave but unmistakable warning to the Austrian Parliament. "A State which respects itself," he said, "cannot tolerate foreign interference. Mr. Fuller, the Governor of Massachusetts, has supplied us with a striking example on that subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Clear & Clever | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Next day, two leading Viennese newspapers sounded the irrepressible retort of small Austria. The conservative Neues Wiener Tageblatt rapped: "The arguments of Il Duce are the arguments of the strong, but not strong arguments." The liberal Neue Freie Presse exclaimed rhetorically: "Your words, Signor Mussolini, can only mean that you consider yourself strong and us weak. . . . Then why refuse us the only right which the weak have-namely, the right to complain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Clear & Clever | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...friend of Signor Benito Mussolini dating from before his rise to power is the learned Jesuit scholar, Father Tacchi-Venturi of Rome. He persuaded Il Duce some years ago to present a State collection of ancient religious books to the Vatican. Generally it is known that Father Tacchi-Venturi has since been the chief intermediary between his Great & Good Friend and Pope Pius XI in recent attempts to negotiate a settlement of the Roman Question (TIME, Feb. 13). Last week a paper knife entered the flesh of Jesuit Tacchi-Venturi amid dramatic circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Jesuit Stabbed | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...House of the Jesuits at Rome there had come and yanked the ancient bellpull a decently dressed youth who announced himself as Signor De Angelis. He must, he said, he must make an important confession to good Father Tacchi-Venturi. The porter, rubbing sleepy eyes, told the youth that his desired confessor was immersed in study, could not be disturbed. Next day Signor De Angelis returned, yanked the bell still more violently, and prevailed upon the porter to usher him into the Jesuit's study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Jesuit Stabbed | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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