Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laborite Prime Minister James Henry Scullin who put through this amazing Act (TIME, April 14). With as deeply rutted a single-track mind as Lenin's or Mussolini's he has highly resolved that Australia shall reverse her unfavorable trade balance, cut down her spending and resultant borrowing abroad, and rescue the Australian worker from unemployment by forcing the creation of new home industries. Australians shall raise birdseed, crush peanuts into butter, perfect their imitations of Champagne, build snorting locomotives, and jump homemade Stump Jump Plows...
Senator Giovanni Agnelli, president of the great Fiat works at Milan (the Mussolini family bailiwick) announced...
Travelers returning from Italy last week told of a striking portent in connection with Signor Benito Mussolini's fiery speaking tour on which he thundered against the "enemies of Italy" (without mentioning them) at Leghorn, Florence, Milan (TIME, May 26, et seq.). Perhaps with intent to frighten would-be assassins, an astonishing poster was stuck up everywhere. It showed the face of Il Duce in thunder-black silhouette. Circling his face in lightning-like letters were these words: "GOD SENT US THIS MAN! WOE BETIDE HIM WHO HARMS...
When Signor Mussolini appeared on a balcony of the Palazzo Vecchio to speak he was announced to the Florentine populace by two heralds in red and white medieval costume who put long brass trumpets to their lips and blew a blast heard a halfmile away. Last week Il Duce even carried his blasting to Paris. For the Petit Parisien he wrote an article attacking by implication Statesman Briand's dearest hobby and pet scheme, his projected European Union or "United States of Europe" (TIME, Sept...
While other European statesmen were talking about reprisals against the U. S. tariff last week, Signor Benito Mussolini acted. He signed a Cabinet decree which appeared in the Official Gazette five days later...