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Word: signore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...besought Mr. Young to chairman the second Dawes Committee, on account of the leading role which he played on the first Dawes Committee. Since President Calvin Coolidge has intimated that he would prefer a European chairman, Mr. Young is obliged to query the White House by cable, in code. Signor Benito Mussolini has meanwhile observed in Rome: "To assemble the committee has cost four months of time. It is to be hoped that its labors will proceed more expe-ditiously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Grand Spectacle | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Dentist into Dictator. There was a time when Signor Benito Mussolini looked like a dentist or a dental student. That was before he shaved off his black, toothbrush mustache. Similarly King Alexander used to be of an insignificant appearance. Though his mind and features were slowly maturing, hardening, this change was obscured by the fact that when one beheld the King, one's attention was monopolized by the little tufts of black. Not until the "dentist" put away his "tooth-brush"?not until the historic week when His Majesty w ent to Paris and there shaved off his mustache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: ''Alexander the Absolute | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

With a solemn flourish and a little very black ink His Majesty Vittorio Emanuele III last week signed away the Constitutional right of Italians to democratic government. This was the last act in a drama which began three years ago?a great drama for which Signor Mussolini supplied the livid theme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA,BULGARIA: Black Farinacci | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...virtually scot free the Fascist murderers of the multimillionaire Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, April 5, 1926). Leading U. S. correspondents have since revealed that at the time they and the Italian press were compelled to suppress material details of the trial? especially all indications that Signor Mus solini might himself have ordered the crime. After the trial successful Signor Farinacci was allowed to pass into discreet eclipse. Soon his post as Secretary General of the Fascist Party was taken by the present incumbent, harsh but not fanatical Augusto Turati. People were allowed to forget Castor Oil & Bludgeon Man Farinacci...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA,BULGARIA: Black Farinacci | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...every two years (TIME, Jan. 21); and intending tourists have been called "fat drones" (TIME, Jan. 28) and warned that they are not wanted in Italy, since they are "more of a nuisance than a benefit." The daring rebuker of Il Duce's favorite editor was Signor Ezio Maria Gray, President of the Italian State Tourist Bureau. Wrote he, apostrophizing Editor Carli: "Perhaps, as you say, there are travelers who would like to transform Italy into a large scale gaming house, have jazz bands playing under the dome of St. Peter's, or turn the Coliseum into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: All Highest Duce | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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