Word: signore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge was entertaining the Italian debt-funding Commission at dinner, someone brought up for conversation "the personality of Benito Mussolini." It was agreed that he had a genius for organization and then-so the story ran-Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur turned to his neighbor at table, Signor Alberto Pirelli, "financial wizard of Italy," and remarked...
...does not definitely appear which of these versions is the correct one. The Grand Master of the Masonic Order in Italy, Signor Torrigiana, has issued orders from Rome that all Masonic lodge meetings and activities are to cease throughout Italy "until the law abolishing secret societies shall be made void...
...Signor Mussolini does not read his history in vain. Having profited so much already by the study of Imperial Roman methods he is celebrating the third anniversary of his advent to power by delving into archives of the Middle Ages. He has brought the policy to light again, with rare appreciation of the spirit in which that official was originally created...
...theory, or pretext, that they must be impartial in local party feuds, these magistrates were never natives of the city which they were appointed to govern. Far be it from Signor Mussolini to overlook the advantages of this mediaeval method of centralization. Appointees of the national government will soon supplant locally elected mayors...
This move, according to Signor Mussolini's cabinet, will end the incompetence which is corollary to petty political warfare, and substitute "an organ of government above parties." The Fascisti are apparently resolved to introduce more competence and more of themselves into Italian politics, for, as Signor Mussolin frankly admits, "You cannot govern with words...