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...Milan, where Fascismo was founded, where his wife lives, where he once edited the family newspaper Il Popolo D'ltalia (now edited by Brother Arnaldo Mussolini), Il Duce cried...
...final Milan speech of the week (to cheering War veterans) Benito Mussolini clawed his French critics tooth & nail, flayed the Paris newspapers which objected to the speech fortnight ago in which Il Duce cried, "though words are beautiful things, muskets, machine guns, ships, airplanes and cannon are much more beautiful things!" (TIME...
...Rome, in the Augusteo Concert Hall built inside the ancient tomb of the Emperor Augustus, important listeners were her Majesty Queen Helena of Italy, Prince Boncompagni Ludovisi, Governor of Rome and U. S. Ambassador John Work Garrett. As it had in Paris, Zurich, Milan and Turin the press proclaimed the orchestra the greatest in existence, Toscanini the greatest of conductors...
...people in China, 24,000,000 in the rest of the East, 25,000,000 (onefourth of the population) in Europe. Its horror is recorded in Daniel DeFoe's Journal of the Plague Year, 1665, when 70,000 died in London. In 1630, 80,000 perished in Milan. Between 1896 and 1917 it killed 10,000,000 over the world. Although San Francisco is one of the five known endemic foci of bubonic plague,* very seldom does a case now appear in the U. S. Rats, ground squirrels (the chief cause in California) and other rodents carry the germ...
...poor nigger," reverted to type, because he did not know anything else to do. The Author. Orio Vergani is 31 years old, is an Italian. Onetime manager of Dramatist Luigo Pirandello's theatre in Rome, he is the author of six books, is a journalist on Milan's Corriere delta Sera, likes boxing, traveling, the cinema. In 1922 he went to Paris to see the championship bout between Frenchman Georges Carpentier and Battling Siki, onetime Senegalese phenomenon; he became interested in Battling Siki, modeled George Boykin after...