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...Prince of Piombino was among the first of Italian nobles to resign from the Catholic Party and enroll in the Fascist, immediately after the "March on Rome" (Oct. 27, 1922). Since then he has enjoyed a career as Deputy and Undersecretary of the Treasury. Particularly has he pleased Il Duce by introducing ultra modern farm machinery and methods on his ancient estates...
...village Brusque Benito was greeted by enthusiastic natives who held in his honor a baby show, then a beauty show. Of both bambinos and signorinas II Duce was judge...
Deep, no doubt, was the soul probing, last week, of Fascists, who are pious Roman Catholics. Daily, Signer Mussolini demands of the whole Italian Nation that it "arrive quickly" at his set goals. Yet last week the Papacy's official spokesman not only contradicted Il Duce's orders but clearly designated him by implication as "profane"−for Benito Mussolini travels about Italy chiefly and by preference at the wheel of his own low, rakish bellowing speed...
...interpreting Il Duce's silence as a command, put 14 stiletto strokes into the assailant, one Anteo Zamboni, and pummeled his remains into a pulp...
...came steaming across from Genoa to New York, last week, on her maiden New York voyage. She is 100% "made in Italy." Il Duce saw to that. She has the Majesty of 33,000 tons, the Serenity of four giant silent Diesel Engines, and she has Power, 28,000 horse power...