Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exactly 10 o'clock members of the Grand Council of Fascism, followed by the Italian Cabinet, all in Fascist trimmings & trappings, marched into the great room. Goat-bearded Marshal Emilio de Bono, recalled last autumn from Ethiopia under a cloud, was there. Chin-tufted Libyan Governor Italo Balbo had flown over from Tripoli to attend the party. Near him sat his Fascist twin, Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, who had sped to Rome from London...
Dictator Mussolini turned on his heel, went back into his office. Most of the crowd started to stream across the city and up the hill to Vittorio Emanuele's Palazza del Quirinale. Radio announcers read the two brief decrees just approved by the Grand Council. Besides the complete annexation of Ethiopia and the proclamation of the King as Emperor, it provided that Ethiopia was to be ruled by a Governor General with the title of Vice roy who will also have authority over the Governors of Eritrea and Somaliland. First Viceroy of Ethiopia: Marshal of Italy, Cavaliere Pietro Badoglio...
Arrested was a buck-toothed spinster of 36 named Mary Berd. Miss Berd has for some years been private secretary to one Zeida Schmellner onetime "Grand Rabbi" of Rumania before he arrived in the U. S. in 1925 amid the greetings of the acting Mayor of New York and a delegation of Jews. Inspecting the files of Miss Berd and Rabbi Schmellner last week, police and 25 accountants said they uncovered records of nearly $2,000,000 taken in as "loans." According to police who questioned both the rabbi and his secretary, the "racket" worked as follows...
...transactions, which extended as far as Canada. Riding around in a big limousine, she maintained personal contact with some people who claimed last week she gave them promissory notes in envelopes which were to be kept sealed lest the mitzvah turn into a "curse." Protested Miss Berd, charged with grand larceny: "Everything is a frame-up. You see I am smiling, so I have nothing to worry about. Whatever I did I did for the best. Everything is 100% perfect...
...clinic for bewildered Freshmen, interested in the field of government, is the most ambitious project of the Council and fairly reeks of Grand Central Station. The founders have likened concentrators in any field to purchasers of a product who have no adequate way of knowing what they are getting. In the inglorious past, so far as we know, Harvard's motto has been: caveat emptor...