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...Shirts, or the Fascisti Party, on the political theory that Bolshevik tactics must be used to combat Bolshevism. It is said that he chose black on purely utilitarian grounds, including the financial aspect of decreased laundry bills. Having become a Napoleon overnight, he armed his black shirted minions with castor oil and the party song, Giovinezza?both equally deadly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Benito's Birthday | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

Although the Fascisti cannot be absolved from using armed force against the civil population, Mussolini's coup d'état of . October, 1922, was largely effected by the potency of his castor oil and the monotony of Giovinezza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Benito's Birthday | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

What Has Happened When Children Cry for Castor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doses of Honesty | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

...then, does this modern realism sell? The public pays to be castigated. It prefers castor oil to Coca-Cola. Perhaps this realism is a sort of invert flattery. Everyone sees Babbitt in his neighbor. Nobody sees Babbitt in himself. That is highly satisfactory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doses of Honesty | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

Last week the Camelots du Roi (Royalists), emulating Facismo, attacked three socialists with tar, ink, sticks and castor oil. The Socialists are: M. Marc Sangnier, leader of the Socialist Radical Party; M. Marius Moutet, a prominent defender in the Caillaux trial; M. Viollette, formerly Minister of Subsistence. Said M. Sangnier: " They can cover me with tar and force castor oil down my throat, but they can never win me to their methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Camelots du Roi | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

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