Word: vecchi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Damascus came a final disembarkment from the royal motors. Self-conscious reporters in swallowtail coats noted in Their Majesties' party the fascinating brown beard of Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, "The Right Hand of II Duce," and the brigand-like black mustache of Cesare Maria di Vecchi, Count di Val Cismon. Italian Ambassador to the Holy See. Swiss drummers in velvet hats thumped yellow-painted drums. Swiss bandsmen blared the Italian royal anthem (the first time that such music had echoed from the Vatican's sacred walls), and followed it with the Papal hymn Inno Pontificio...
...Foreign Affairs, War, Marine, Aviation, Colonies, Public Works, Corporation. *The fourth Quadrumvir is Count de Vecchi. He got no Cabinet post. Instead, some time ago, he received the imposing honor of appointment as the Kingdom of Italy's first Ambassador to the new Vatican City...
Announcements were then made that Count Cesare Maria de Vecchi di Val Cismon, "old guard" Fascist, was appointed Italy's Ambassador to Vatican City...
Married. Mrs. Margaret Shaw Billings, widow of Albert M. Billings, son of Cornelius K. G. Billings of Manhattan and Santa Barbara, to Robert de Vecchi, California fruitman; in Manhattan...
...Augusteo Amphitheatre was crowded with bemedaled Black Shirts who had arrived from all parts of Italy to attend this year's National Congress of Fascisti. In the Royal Box sat Mussolini gazing down upon the multitude with the air of a Caesar. On the stage was Deputy de Vecchi urging complete "Fascistization" of the State: "Our efforts will not be relaxed," he said, "until ultimate victory. Our chief cannot be touched without passing over our dead bodies"-the finishing touch which caused an uproarious rendition of the inevitable Fascist hymn, Giovinezza...