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...Venturi...
...Jobs. He went first to Milan, hunted up his old boss, Commendatore Luigi Venturi, general manager and chief owner of the Seta Co., and head of the Fascist federation of silk factories. Said Venturi: "You have nothing to fear here. We're not barbarians like your Nazis." He gave S. K. a part-time job with Seta...
Stratosphere. S. K. was active not only in the underground. His special importance lay in the fact that he knew how to navigate the Fascist stratosphere. When Boss Venturi went to Rome (as head of one of the seven divisions of the Ministry of Corporations), S. K. followed him. In Rome he was introduced to Rome's exclusive Circolo della Caccia (Hunt Club), where Count Ciano gave most of his political dinners. Soon S. K. carried a guest card. At the Hunt Club he met Count Roberto Pinelli, member of the undersecretariat of the Ministry...
...visitor named Carlo Noya. Signor Noya went home to the coastal town of Savona. He had an old picture at home and to him it looked strangely like some of the Leonardos he had seen. He fetched it to Milan, showed it to such experts as Adolfo Venturi. It did not take the experts long to know it for the work of "a great Tuscan master of the Renaissance." nor much longer to announce last week that it will be hung in the da Vinci exhibition as, in all probability, the master's long-lost and long-sought Madonna with...
...Kremlin. But two mysterious talks of the Pope with British Minister to the Vatican Francis D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne, a talk with German Ambassador to the Vatican Carl Ludwig Diego von Bergen, two "very important" talks with Dictator Mussolini's friend Father Tacchi-Venturi, two meetings of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs in the office of the Papal Secretary of State, hinted how seriously the Holy Father had buckled down to the task of preventing an Anglo-Soviet Pact...