Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Keenest Roman interest focused on the man from whom Il Capo snatched the Ministry of Colonies-Signor Luigi Federzoni. Some have called this strong and enigmatic statesman "The Soft Speaker for the Vatican." All know that he has long been the only one of Benito Mussolini's ministers from whom harassed King Vittorio Emanuele III has always been able to secure a countersignature for his royal acts. Constitutionally the pen scratch of His Majesty is of no effect, unless countersigned by a member of the Government. Therefore when Signor Federzoni's ministry was snatched away, last week...
Subscriptions cost 1,900 francs a year ($75). Electricians who come clumping in to install the device bring a loud speaker and two pairs of headphones. Thereafter the subscriber may listen, every night and two afternoons a week, to whatever may be sung at the Opera, or played in such famed theatres as the Odeon or Comedie Française. Already half a dozen hit-show theatres supplement this list; and Le Théatrophone seems to have definitely caught on. One typically French restriction is imposed. The subscriber may not switch from one performance to another while the first...
...Speaker Longworth of the House. President Coolidge transmitted news that the Treasury Department had underestimated its requirements for tax refunds in 1929 by 75 millions...
...President Hainisch expired, last week, he would have been automatically succeeded by Chancellor Seipel, who would have become President ad interim. Above all Socialists did not want that. Therefore they abstained, 91 strong, thus permitting the election by only 94 votes of Dr. Wilhelm Miklas, an unimportant figure, though Speaker of Parliament...
...time in a four-roomed house at Horn, one and a half hours from Vienna by rail, with the President's five youngest sons. Through a quiet life of 56 years he has risen slowly from obscure school teaching to be rector of a little college, then Speaker. Unashamed of poverty, he claims to have worn every day since 1924 the same now threadbare morning coat, striped trousers, soft felt hat. A meek man, President Miklas has been content to stand and wait upon Monsignor Seipel and other leaders of the Clerical party called "Christian Socialist." The fact that...