Word: fascismo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since Fascismo has always vaunted itself the "Party of Youth" and foe of paunchy middle age, the Dictator's choice appeared peculiarly remarkable...
...ostentatiously deposited unsealed a ballot plainly emblazoned with the Fascist device.* Placid, bespectacled Pope Pius XI and other churchmen actually resident in the new Papal State could not vote because they are no longer citizens of Italy. Dopesters estimated that His Holiness' influence had flung into the scale of Fascismo at least 1,000,000 extra votes. A sadder if not wiser voter was Crown Prince Umberto of Savoy. There is every reason to believe the stories that H. R. H. detests Commoner Mussolini and once challenged him to duel over what he deemed a point of honor...
...measure gave 66?% of the seats to whichever party should lead the others and poll at least 25% of the popular vote. In a country such as Italy, where the chamber was normally composed of perhaps a dozen parties, none greatly preponderating, this law gave to the leading party (Fascismo) absolute and wholly disproportionate power. Result: prior to its royal dissolution the 27th Chamber passed over 2,000 laws pleasing to Il Duce, without possibility of their being effectively debated or opposed...
Originally swart, nervous, cynical Roberto Farinacci was famed as the Castor Oil Man of Fascismo. Politicians who rashly opposed Il Duce were ambushed and forced to swallow a pint, a quart, even a sickening gallon of what Farinacci called his "golden nectar of nausea." As Secretary General of the Fascist Party he wielded Ku-Klux powers of life and death. His last notorious, outrageous exploit was to warp the very fibre of Italian Justice and get off virtually scot free the Fascist murderers of the multimillionaire Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, April 5, 1926). Leading U. S. correspondents have since...
...electorate vote "yes," the entire slate will be declared elected, and Italy will have a 100% Fascist Chamber. Jokers in the law will almost certainly prevent a 51% vote of "no"; but in that remote contingency new elections would be held, and so ad infinitum until Fascismo triumphs. There are no local constituencies under this mock electoral procedure. In U. S. terms this would mean that the whole nation would vote to elect or reject a Congressional candidate in, for example, Rhode Island or Arkansas. ? See page 329 of The Life of Benito Mussolini by Margherita G. Sarfatti (TIME...