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From the long marble steps in front of Venice's railway station, little King Vittorio Emmanuele stepped into a gaily beflagged launch and chuffed off down the serpentine Grand Canal to the Palazzo Pesaro. Behind the palace's mooring poles stood Signor Mario Alvera, Podesta (Mayor) of Venice, and Professor Nino Barbantini, director of The Modern Art Gallery. Together they led their King through the greatest collection ever assembled of the works of Venice's greatest painter, Tiziano Vecelli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Venetian Regrets | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...Signor Mussolini, impatient and contemptuous of the "exploratory voyages" of Sir John and Lord Privy Seal Anthony Eden (TIME, April 1 et seq.), sought to get everyone down to brass tacks. Observed Italian newsorgans which are under his thumb: "What have these explorations done except to leave Italy under the necessity of maintaining 600,000 men in arms? . . . When is procrastination to give place to action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Island Diplomacy | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...protests of Great Britain and France. Now, however, the English objections have been withdrawn, probably because Italian expansion is considered less dangerous than French. It is also apparent that the Quai d'Orsay now feels that Abyssinia is of less importance than central Europe. When M. Laval calls upon Signor Mussolini this week, he will probably express his gratitude for support against German pretensions by allowing the Roman government complete freedom in Africa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 12/18/1934 | See Source »

...Duce was well represented at Mr. Boomer's dinner. Retiring president of IHA was Cesare Pinchetti, on his first visit to the U. S. Like his father before him Signor Pinchetti owns Rome's Hotel Bristol, where visiting royalties used to stay. He speaks for the Italian hotel industry in the National Council of the Corporative State (see p. 23). Short, stout and 46, he was more excited last week over the prospect of seeing Niagara Falls than over the Waldorf dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hotels of the World | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...soon as the letter from Savio had been read, the Duce sent out one of his secretaries, ONE ENTIRELY UNKNOWN TO THE GREAT MASS OF THE PUBLIC, who came back with the following report to the Duce: 'To Signor Pietro Savio. 72 years of age, born in Turin, ex-contractor, unable to work because of advanced age, now living at 25 Via Calabria, there has been communicated that the bread at 1.30 per kilo was bought by the Duce from the bakery of Antonio Menichini, at No. 78 Via Alessandria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Bread fot Skeptics | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

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