Word: signore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Battle of Wheat." At the opening of the first national Wheat Exhibition in Rome, Signor Mussolini declared his satisfaction with this year's crop, assessed at 275,000,000 tons, but called attention to the fact that the goal of 375,000,000 tons a year was still a long way off, the figure at which, cereally speaking, Italy will become self-supporting. Said...
Marconi. At a luncheon given by the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Manhattan, Senator Guglielmo Marconi made the following points regarding Signor Mussolini: "The Government is carried in strong hands. The fortunes of the State are guided by enlightened minds and the country, as a whole, has full faith in Premier Mussolini's energetic policy. He is willing to make great sacrifices for the good of Italy's economic position in the world. There is no false pride in saying that Italians are proud and gratified at the results which have been noted and praised by economists in all parts...
...Fascist innovations, for. the two dictators are sure to discuss the relative merits of dictatorship, etc. It is recalled that Premier Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary returned from Rome early in the year to promise the startled and unhappy Hungarians a few Fascist reforms, so enamored was he of Signor Mussolini's personality and government...
...Mynheer Mengelberg and Signor Toscanini share the Philharmonic season, with Guest Conductors Sir Thomas Beecham and Bernadino Molinari (TIME. Sept. 19), and Ernest Schelling, leader of the Children's Concerts...
...hunted down on the island of Sicily, captured, jailed. For centuries the Mafia protected Sicilians while the island was under foreign rule. When Italy became unified in 1870, the Mafia (in reality a coalition of gangs) turned brigands and terrorized the island ruthlessly. Not until the advent of Signor Mussolini and his Fascist! has any government dared to put down their wholesale lawlessness, although many half-hearted attempts have been made...