Word: signore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scarcely has Premier Laval left America's shores when Signor Dino Grandi, the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, will arrive. A fiery little man who represents Mussolini, he comes to chat with President Hoover on matters of international interest...
...replace Anita Colombo, able directrix of La Scala Opera in Milan who lost her job last month, partly because of her friendship with anti-Fascist Arturo Toscanini (TIME, Sept. 28), a rich Venetian and pioneer Fascist was appointed: Erardo Trentinaglia. Esteemed in Italy as a composer and conductor, Signor Trentinaglia planned first to shorten La Scala's season, cut down on novelties...
There is, however, nothing mysterious to Signor Bendandi's forecasts. Some 30,000 quakes ruffle the earth yearly. Patient men have compiled world catalogs of recognized quakes, viz., R. Mallet's Catalogue of Recorded Earthquakes (1606 B.C.-A.D. 1842), J. Milne's A Catalogue of Destructive Earthquakes (A.D. 1-1899). Others have brought the records up to date. Out of the records analysts have been able to decipher two groups of periodicity in earthquakes. In one group vigorous quakes occur once a year, faint ones every day. In the other group trifling temblors occur every 21 minutes...
Soon "the mysterious man and woman" were "a certain Italian prince and an American movie actress, we are reliably informed." Next, it was certain that the man was Crown Prince Umberto. Actually he was a grey-haired Italian banker, Signor Nardi Beltrami. The woman soon became Cinemactress Jeannette MacDonald-actually she was the banker's mistress, one Signorina Lodigiani. When banker & mistress recovered sufficiently to slip away to parts unknown, journalistic rumor ran riot, especially in France. The story now was, is, that Jeannette MacDonald was injured not in an auto accident but by Crown Princess Maria Jose...
...Politique, Cest Moi!" That Signor Benito Mussolini was in no humble mood last week was clear from an interview which he rattled off in French to Correspondent Jacques de Marsillac of the Paris Journal...