Word: duced
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...whole plateau, the "Plain of 1,000 Villages." Unfortunately Eritrea is again costing Italy dear. It was run at a loss for the first 30 years, began to break even in 1920, but has again become an expensive luxury for Italy and her ambitious, damn-the-expense Duce. Greatest achievement of Italians in Eritrea is to have introduced cotton culture in valleys previously thought incapable of growing cotton, then to have built capacious cotton gins at Asmara and Massawa. With cotton sunk like other world commodities, this achievement must remain a debit until world prices rise again...
...Socialist, atheist, terrorist- but may he not have changed? Last week, in an amazing contribution to the Enddopedia Italiana, Signor Mussolini tried to define the "Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism." succeeded in defining himself, exposing some of his innermost mental processes. Excerpts: Peace. "Above all," wrote 77 Duce, "Fascism does not believe in the possibility or advisability of perpetual peace. It therefore rejects pacifism. . . . Only war leads to the maximum tension of all human energies and sets the seal of nobility on people who have the virtue to face it." Christianity- "The Fascist loves his neighbor," Il Duce continued...
Citizen Walker (in pajamas, dashing off a radiogram to // Duce ) : VOL'R EXCELLENCY I AM COMPELLED TO LEAVE THE REX TO SERVE SOME PERSONAL OBLIGATIONS [see p. 10] BUT I DO SO WITH A FEELING OF GREAT ADMIRATION FOR AND COMPLETE CONFIDENCE IN THE REX AND HER CREW...
Ballot counting showed that Red candidates had more than doubled their strength in the City Council, that parties favorable to Tsar Boris had lost more than half their seats. What to do? What would Queen Elena say in Rome? Would Il Duce tolerate a Red Sofia? Must the Tsar & Tsarina in their small stucco palace submit to the existence not two blocks away of a Red Council in the large, stucco City Hall...
...official" Commissioners: French General Henri Claudel, who commanded the ist French Colonial Corps (African) in the War; German Dr. Heinrich Schnee, last Governor of German East Africa (1912-19); and Italian Count Aldrovandi-Marescotti, recalled in 1929 from his post as Ambassador to Germany because a copy of Il Duce's most private code had vanished inexplicably from the Berlin Embassy...