Word: signores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...
...satisfied France, which can conceive of the League as strong only if its present principles are strengthened. It also satisfied II Duce whose idea of strengthening the League is to cut out most of its democratic-parliamentary apparatus and vest all League authority in a clique of Great Powers. "Signor Mussolini shares completely the view of Sir John Simon," beamed a spokesman for the Dictator...
...When Signor Mussolini rattles his poniard and makes large, inclusive gestures, the world makes a mental note of it and passes on, becoming less and less perturbed by each bombastic reiteration. But when he takes a definite national step, the world cocks an attentive ear. This time The Leader has planned a reduction, for the whole populace of wages and the cost of living, presumably simultaneously, both of the items to be lowered by ten or twelve per cent. Faced with severe international competition in the shrinking world market, Italy is forced, says Mussolini, to lower costs drastically. And this...
What this finality will mean to Italy, Signor Marsanich (who seemed to be sending up trial balloons last week for Premier Mussolini) stated thus: "In industry the corporations will have to assume economic functions-even to taking the place of private initiative and writing finis to the capitalistic regime as now conceived-creating the best conditions and the most work possible. . . . It is not necessary to confuse private initiative with private ownership! Private property cannot and should not be abolished! But in the great industries . . . I regard the corporazione as the organ which will control...