Word: signore
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...course: First, Signor Benito Mussolini, 45, who lives most of the year away from his wife, Donna Rachele, yet dotes on their only daughter, Edda; and the Second, the Earl of Birkenhead, Viscount Furneaux, 56, Secretary of State for India, a devoted British husband, and a hero to his two smart daughters-Lady Eleanor Smith and Lady Pamela Margaret Elizabeth Smith...
Though such rumors were obviously intended to produce a maximum shock from a minimum content of fact, they made it impossible for Signor Benito Mussolini to continue to pass over in silence the resignation of Finance Minister Count Volpi. The response of Il Duce, obediently voiced by unanimous editorials in the State dominated press, was that Fascist Italy has perfected as a substitute for the cabinet crises of more democratic states the Doctrine of Ministerial Rotations. Stripped of rhetoric, the Doctrine means that, while France gets a new set of Ministers every time her Cabinet falls, the fact that Prime...
...Signor Benito Mussolini's ministers have constantly dared to call their souls and policies their own. One is Signor Luigi Federzoni, soft speaker for the Vatican, Colonial Minister. The other and greater is Count Giuseppe Volpi...
Last week, Count Volpi resigned as Finance Minister. He is known to have incurred the ire of Il Duce on several occasions-notably when he insisted that the lira be put back on gold at a lower valuation than that at first desired by Signor Mussolini. But from this it must not be rashly assumed that Count Volpi was "asked to resign." The irritable Duce has in other moods given his Finance Minister to understand that he must resist certain highly lucrative offers from the sphere of private business which have become especially tempting of late...
...facilitate the "peaceful penetration" by Italian colonists of Dalmatia, which is adjacent to Croatia, the part of Jugoslavia from which Stefan Raditch hails. For three years Croat Raditch has blocked the treaty, driving the Jugoslav government to their wit's ends, since they are under heaviest pressure from Signor Mussolini to sign...