Word: stefani
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benito Mussolini took up flexing his 58-year-old muscles in public again. Italy's official news service, Stefani, let everybody know he had joined some infantrymen and "marched with them several miles on foot...
...Mussolini, by convention, the great Italian past meant the great days of the Roman legions. To many an Italian it meant defeat at Guadalajara, in Greece, in Africa. Last week the Stefani news agency reported from the Russian Front that Italian troops attached to the victorious German Army were doing their part...
Until two years ago Reuters got substantial revenue from the worldwide sale of news. War has cut off its market in Europe and China and has forced it to meet subsidized competition of Axis news agencies (DNB, Stefani, Domei) elsewhere, particularly in South America. War vastly increased the cost of coverage for Reuters as it has done for all press associations...
...middle of last April, Stefani announced that he had reached an agreement with the University by which union workers in the dining halls would be compelled to pay their dues by April 30 or else be subject to dismissal...
...They're all willing to join up when we offer the four dollars a week more pay, uniforms free and laundered by the University, a $50 sick benefit, and $150 to their families in case of death," Stefani explained at the time. "Then, in a little while, they begin to backslide on their $1.50 a month dues. Till this month, the union had no method of forcing them to play...