Word: fascismo
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...friction between Toscanini and il Fascismo was too much to be borne. He resigned as director of La Scala. But the blonde Valkyrie carried on, under Director Angelo Scandiani. When he became ill, she substituted ably. Then in June 1930, Director Scandiani died. The Government had suspended La Scala's "Autonomous Corporation," appointed wealthy Senatore Borletti to be Royal Commissioner (dictator) of the opera. Under the supervision of Benito Mussolini, he was empowered to select a new director. He picked Signorina Colombo. The Press raged. People held mass-meetings. A woman? It was unthinkable. But someone sagely pointed out that...
...Fascismo, the encyclical charged, plans ''to monopolize completely the young, from the tenderest years up to manhood and womanhood, and all for the exclusive advantage of a party, of a regime, based on an ideology which clearly resolves itself into a true and real pagan worship of the State, which is no less in contrast with the natural rights of the family than it is in contradiction with the supernatural rights of the church...
...everyone knows, Conductor Toscanini is violently antiFascist. His political views as well as his low opinion of the musical value of "Giovinezza" prompted him long ago to refuse to play it, and il Fascismo once became so irritated as to threaten him with its famed, ugly castor oil cure. It was no new experience for him when Leandro Arpinati. Under Secretary of the Interior, and Boss of Bologna, requested that before the Bologna concert last month he perform the Fascist tune and the ''Marcia Reale" (royal march of the house of Savoy). Though Conductor Toscanini suspected no trap...
...huge, high-ceilinged Renaissance offices in the Palazzo Venezia last week, Il Duce summoned and addressed the Directorate of Fascismo. The session was secret, but a summary of what Premier Mussolini said was issued. In substance he pictured Pope Pius as surrounded by a Vatican camarilla who concealed from His Holiness every fact favorable to Fascism and furthermore concealed from the Holy Father that Azione Cattolica was plotting against the State...
...salary-cropped Senators thought so, they did not say so. There of course had to be some goat to blame for this sizable deficit. Prime Minister Mussolini found a handy one in the U. S. The Wall Street crash of 1929, blamed for so much, was apparently responsible for Fascismo's troubles as well. Said...