Word: signore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Signor Benito Mussolini's Cabinet passed a series of decrees last week compelling all Italian landlords to reduce rents on their properties by July 1, 1927, thus...
Significance. When Signor Mussolini became Premier, five years ago, he found building at a standstill, due to the restrictions imposed by previous regimes upon landlords. The Fascist regime immediately removed these restrictions, and building has progressed rapidly in consequence. Now Premier Mussolini's new restrictions, supplementing others of a less drastic character (TIME, May 2), tend to pinch the very landlords who responded to his earlier appeals for rapid building. Did Il Duce, then, trick as well as pinch Italian landlords last week? Those who thought that he did not, declared that, by raising and stabilizing the gold value...
...first man to shake Signor de Pinedo's hand and to plant a kiss upon Signor de Pinedo's cheek was Premier Benito Mussolini, august upon a barge on the Tyrrhenian Sea. The people on the beach, taking their cue, applauded loudly, cheered lustily...
...attempt the life of Signor Mussolini...
...Court, a special military tribunal, sentenced Signor Lucetti to 30 years' imprisonment. Although he maintained to the last that he had had no accomplices, the Court sentenced two men who were at least his intimates to terms of 18 and 20 years...