Word: signore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cold and Cash. A prolonged and most exceptional cold wave has smitten France during the past month, thus still further hurting Riviera tourist trade. Twenty persons died of the cold in France last week, when the thermometer fell to 14° above zero in several cities.† Moreover, Signor Mussolini has lured many tourists from the French to the Italian Riviera by " cutting down Italian tourist taxes while those in France remain high. Finally the doubling of the gold value of the franc in five months (TIME, July 26) has scared away still more tourists and produced a serious fiscal...
...Signor Gualino, director and founder of the big Viscosa artificial silk works, which employ thousands of men and women, went recently to Mussolini and declared he must close all his mills unless he got working capital...
...delegation of civic patriots from Caltagirone, Sicily, sought the dark, high-ceilinged office of Signor Mussolini in the Palazzo Chigi last week and humbly petitioned that he would deign to raise their region to the rank of a province...
Suddenly the brow of Signor Mussolini relaxed. Rising he cried: "Citizens, I shall create no new provinces until 1932. But do not despair! . . . When that time comes, I shall reward those regions which have shown themselves the most laborious, best disciplined and most prolific. . . . Citizens! Return to Caltagirone and achieve these three glorious goals...
Pallid busts of the Caesars keep a spectral watch in the great highceilinged room which Signor Mussolini calls his office. There, upright at his massive desk, he transfixed newsgatherers last week with a calm smoldering glance, answered their questions about the new Proscription Law (TIME, Nov. 15). Was it not, hinted the representatives of the press, a little persecutory to deport non-Fascist offenders to "penal islands" in the Mediterranean and Adriatic for "political and social crimes...