Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of good American films. Russian films are extremely interesting because they are done in a new, modernistic spirit; but there is too much "esprit de propagande politique" in them. In Italy educational films are put out under the authority of the government by the Institute National Luce. Mussolini is very much in favor of films done in a realistic manner and sees the cinema as an effective means of international "rapprochement...
Dentist into Dictator. There was a time when Signor Benito Mussolini looked like a dentist or a dental student. That was before he shaved off his black, toothbrush mustache. Similarly King Alexander used to be of an insignificant appearance. Though his mind and features were slowly maturing, hardening, this change was obscured by the fact that when one beheld the King, one's attention was monopolized by the little tufts of black. Not until the "dentist" put away his "tooth-brush"?not until the historic week when His Majesty w ent to Paris and there shaved off his mustache...
Recently Catholics throughout the world have rejoiced to hear that Mussolini intends to grant Pius XI a tiny portion of Italy (TIME, Jan. 14 et seq ). It is freely rumored that the 21st Ecumenical Council will sanctify that grant...
Professor Gaetano Salvemini, a distinguished historian, formerly a contributor to Mussolini's newspaper, but now one of the leading opponents of the Fascist dictatorship, is to give a series of three lectures in History 2b on Italy from 1871 to 1914 during the last week of this month...
...outstanding figures in the life of modern Italy. As a professor in the University of Florence he became involved in politics serving as a Deputy of the Progressive School. Although at the outset he was in sympathy with the Fascist movement, and one of the leading contributors to Mussolini's journals, he gradually broke away from the new party, until after the institution of the repressive system of Mussolini, he became a vigorous opponent of the new government...