Word: fascistes
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...Sicily and below Naples, where the power of Fascismo is more a distant threat than a present force, prices and wages scarcely wavered. In central Italy there was obedience at Rome and in Fascist centres generally, but much resistance elsewhere...
...Trouble. Fascist censors and the enforced caution of correspondents in Italy, kept news of disorders at a minimum. John Lucas, New York World newsgatherer, inclined to alarums, cabled...
...woman edged through the crowd unnoticed, holding a small revolver between her cupped hands which she extended toward Il Duce, as though in adoring supplication. Taking careful, point-blank aim she pulled the trigger; but at that same instant a band struck up the Fascist hymn "Giovinezza," and Signor Mussolini threw back his head proudly to listen. The bullet sped, but not into his brain. He had thrown back his head far enough so that the leaden slug only clipped an atom of flesh from the tip of his nose...
...interposed to prevent a mob from lynching his would-be assassin, the Honorable Violet Albina Gibson, sister of the irish peer, William Gibson, second Baron Ashbourne. Dictator Mussolini, just, secured for Miss Gibson a safe refuge in jail. She was pronounced insane by Italian alienists (TIME, Aug. 16); but Fascist feeling ran so high that it was necessary to give her continued jail protection. Last week, one year and one month after her irresponsible act, Miss Gibson was put aboard a train at Rome, attended by four nurses and his sister, the Honorable Constance Gibson. Thus guarded, she left Italy...
...however, did newsgatherers learn the impressive details of germination. . . . Despatches from Forli told that the sprouting shoots of Signer Mussolini "have already done so well that they are considered the best of the whole region. . . ." From the super-sower, super-wheat. Although wheat rust may yet blight the harvest, Fascist editors hinted broadly last week that the tender sproutlings of Il Duce will potently mature until the Ministry of National Economy will delight to honor him with a prize awarded each year to the husbandman whose average yield of wheat per ara* shows the greatest percentage of increase over that...