Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italian mothers last week babbled these pleasant tales of motherhood to Benito Mussolini in his big office. They were representative of the 94 big winners in his More Babies Contest who have had 727 children (7.7 apiece) in the last eleven years. Each received from the Dictator last week five crisp new 1,000 lira bills, and to an Italian peasant 5,000 lire is a great deal more than its exchange equivalent in the U. S. ($263). Each also received a paid-up insurance policy. Of the 94 champions one is an Italian noblewoman, mother of seven...
...voice to an undertone while talking with Signora Venia Errani, mother of 13, whose husband is fighting in Spain. The Dictator then delivered extempore a series of lusty remarks about fecundity so pointed that several husbands who had come with their wives blushed furiously. "You report to me" Mussolini warned his champion mothers, "if your husbands don't treat you as they should...
...been declared. To undeclared wars the President can apply the Neutrality Act or not, as he sees fit. The law for which the Panay sinking last week surprisingly supplied momentum in Congress was one which, as an expression of pacifism, made the Neutrality Act look like a speech by Mussolini...
Born. To Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italy's Foreign Minister, and Edda Mussolini, Countess Ciano, influential daughter of Il Duce: their third child, a son; in Rome...
Most popular number is one in which Mussolini, Hitler, Eden and a Japanese general, bedight with halos and wings, slyly kill each other with pistols, daggers, machine guns tucked away in their angelic robes. All the while they sweetly sing...