Word: avanti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy. He has found little time to spend in his big palace in the heart of Naples. The applause he receives at public gatherings is even more vociferous than that accorded Il Duce. Because of the Prince of Piedmont's growing popularity, the old familiar Italian cry of Avanti Savoia ("Forward, House of Savoy") has come to have new meaning these past few months...
...about the time of Edda's birth Mussolini's journalistic fortunes were changing. Having made a success in Forli with his own paper La Lotta di Classe (The Class Fight), he became editor of Avanti!, Italy's leading Socialist journal. Edda was scarcely able to walk when Papa Benito, loudly opposing the "imperialist" Italian-Turkish War over Libya, spent six months in jail for "resisting" public authorities, and general anti-war violence. Soon afterward he founded Il Popolo d'ltalia, at Milan, still the Mussolini family paper, and changed his anti-war tune to an aggressive...
...stay" was elegant, hollow-eyed Margherita Sarfatti, once a great personal friend and professional colleague of Benito Mussolini, now in disgrace in Italy because her family, although old honored and Venetian, is also Jewish. Margherita and Benito met when she was art critic and he editor of the Socialist Avanti in Milan, long before he became famous. Through the comparatively tranquil late '20s and up until 1935, when the Duce made most of his private income by writing for the Hearst newspapers, Madame Sarfatti was his "ghost" and manager. When the Dictator wanted a raise from Hearst, she helped...
...Japan's new Cabinet is "opposed to such radical modern ideas as Fascism," its press officer announced in Tokyo last week. Italy's Dictator was named by his extremely radical father "Benito Juarez Mussolini," after Mexico's great radical hero. He was for years editor of Avanti, Italy's No. 1 Socialist newspaper. When he broke with Socialism to found Fascism, he stormed out of a wildly yelling Socialist assembly in Milan with the words: "You hate me because you still love...
...Avanti! Avanti!" Flat-footed askari scouts went padding in from their posts and the final advance on Addis Ababa started...