Word: augusto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trial? especially all indications that Signor Mus solini might himself have ordered the crime. After the trial successful Signor Farinacci was allowed to pass into discreet eclipse. Soon his post as Secretary General of the Fascist Party was taken by the present incumbent, harsh but not fanatical Augusto Turati. People were allowed to forget Castor Oil & Bludgeon Man Farinacci. His re-emergence last week on the very pinnacle of power, at the right hand of Il Duce, seemed of black omen for Italy...
...medal must show the appalling backwardness and almost total illiteracy of the masses, a huge majority of which are Indians. Probably the great, feudal families of Peru are in no hurry to pump education or ideas into toilers who work so cheaply. Chief of the aristocratic oligarchs is Augusto B. Leguia, who is now relishing his third term as President of Peru. Twenty years ago Señor Leguia was called "The Bantam Roosevelt of Peru." Since "T. R." is now dead and "Il Duce" has risen, President Leguia is sometimes called, "The Bantam Mussolini of Peru"-except by admirers...
...July, 1926, five Peruvian Boy Scouts set out from Chepin, Peru, to win a prize by walking to New York. Two died. Two returned home, ill. Last week, one, Augusto Flores, arrived in Manhattan. The prize had been withdrawn...
Such atrocities would more than justify U. S. intervention. They are ascribed by the McCoy report to a "gang led by Pedro Altamirano, trusted lieutenant of Sandino." The latter is of course General Augusto Calderon Sandino, who has raised the standard of revolt against U. S. occupation (TIME, Aug. 1 et seq.) and is still successfully defying capture by U. S. marines. Since Sandino depends wholly upon his fellow-countrymen for contributions to support his army, the news that he is cutting off the hands that feed him is peculiarly challenging to alert belief...
Mordant, militant are the words of Signor Augusto Turati, right hand "boss politician" to Signer Benito Mussolini, and Secretary General of the Fascist party...