Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Fascismo still paid dividends, Count Galeazzo Ciano supped as well as any. Wedded to Mussolini's daughter, the waspish, predatory Edda, and openly called the heir apparent, he swooped through his duties as Foreign Minister with minimum effort and maximum profit...
Orchids to Dangerous Danny for his new, snappy 10-count manual, designed to evacuate the typing room . . . Danny is certainly riding the range these days...
Democrats are in demand in Budapest. Choleric, dictatorial Regent Nicholas Horthy and his landed-gentry friends need a new act, are ready to try "the People's Will" if it can get them out of the war without penalty. Except for the brief moment of Count Michael Károlyi's Republic at the end of World War I, Hungary has never seriously tried democracy and the first moves were awkward...
...Royalist Count Anton Sigray solemnly assured the docile Parliament that the Hungarian State had always been based on democratic principles, always pursued a democratic policy "in the best meaning of the word. The Hungarian kingdom must be restored," he added amid cheers. "Restoration would bring about a solidification and pacification ... of the whole southeastern European sphere...
...from the Jap, slowly enlarged the Empress Augusta Bay beachhead. Now, after six weeks of fighting, it runs roughly 10,000 yards along the shore, 8,000 yards inland. Last week came the announcement that U.S. engineers had completed a runway within the beachhead. The Allied command could now count on better fighter cover for air and sea attacks on Rabaul, the Jap Southwest Pacific strongpoint...