Word: duce
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...almost bald, Duce. You had better buy some hair tonic." the General did not reply. Saying nothing to anyone, he had his whiskers off so hastily that sentries of the Fascist Militia of which he is Commander failed to recognize him a few days later, refused at first to let him pass his own lines...
Though hirsute Fascist underlings were reported in a barber's rush to become smooth-faced last week, Air Marshal Italo Balbo, one of the few blackshirts who has ever talked back to Il Duce, remained bearded...
Last week on the frowning Capitoline Hill, a site as ancient as Rome itself, II Duce convened the first General Assembly of the Corporative State in the Hall of Julius Caesar...
Manhood will not come until Il Duce feels able to withdraw his personal guidance from the manifold and multiplex organs of state he is creating. Today they are in virile flux. The goal is to create government by men responsible not primarily to geographical constituencies or obedient to the results of counting noses; but government by men drawn from the ranks of production representing primarily agriculture and industry, labor and capital, trade and the professions. In the General Assembly sat last week not "the Deputy from Padua" but, in effect, "the Deputy from Wheat," "the Deputy from Mercury, " "the Deputy...
Most emphatically Il Duce is not yet ready to turn over Italy to some 800 Deputies or Delegates of this new sort who make up the General Assembly of his Corporative State. Before convening them last week, the Dictator appointed by absolute fiat a Vice President to each of the 22 Fascist Corporations. The Assembly then elected him President of each & every Corporation...