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...join up when we offer them four dollars a week more pay, uniforms free and laundered by the University, a $50 sick benefit, and $150 to their families in case of death," explained Stefani. "Then, in a little while, they begin to backslide on their $1.50-a-month duce. Till this month, the union had no method of forcing them...
Even the little omens of Minister Matsuoka's trip were discouraging. In Rome, Il Duce presented him with a glossy new motor launch. Minister Matsuoka planned a sunny maiden voyage down the rolling Tiber. But that day it rained...
...Port Newark, N. J., an Italian seaman with no love for Il Duce tipped off a customs official that Italian ships in U. S. ports were being systematically sabotaged by their crews. In a few hours word reached the President. Back came an order from the Potomac: seize all German and Italian ships to prevent their being further damaged; put all Danish ships in protective custody. In Washington, tall, mild, Acting Treasury Secretary Herbert Earle Gaston put his finger on Section I of Title II of the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917, authorizing seizure of foreign vessels "to prevent...
Benito Mussolini's official biographer, Margherita Sarfatti, writes that one day, as Il Duce was pacing his great room in the Chigi Palace, she asked him what his ambition...
...lion's paw drew its thin line across Libya, across Ethiopia, across Albania. But when Benito Mussolini tried to make his mark in Greece, the paw began picking up thorns-until by last week Il Duce was badly in need of his Androcles, Adolf Hitler. The biggest thorn, the one which hurt even more than Libya, was being pressed home by the British in Ethiopia (see map). The seizure of Ethiopia in 1936 was what made Italy an "Empire...