Word: benito
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between the ages of seven and 20 years"-that was what Dictator-King Alexander of Jugoslavia created last week by a pen-scratch. In Italy a similar militia, for boys only, called Balilla* has been formed by the inventor of this apt scheme for bending twigs of youth, Signor Benito Mussolini. In Belgrade Dictator-King Alexander christened his balilla "The Hawks of Jugoslavia," dubbed his bonny six-year-old eldest son, Crown Prince Peter, "The Eternal Chief of Hawks...
...months, every move, every gesture of this auspicious tableau had been argued and arranged between committees of papal and royal experts in etiquette. Chief rub: Papal etiquette demanded that visiting sovereigns should kiss the Pope's toe. Vittorio Emanuele, or Benito Mussolini, found this unbecoming to the dignity of the House of Savoy (TIME, Nov. 25). Hence the compromise, the one-kneed genuflection. His Holiness did not leave Their Majesties kneeling long. Quickly he motioned them to their feet, led them to two armchairs placed on a level with and on either side of his "Little Throne,"* which...
Reason: identical. The capitalist owners, Signore Luigi Capi and Signore Grazio Capograsso, have not been fighting the "Battle of the Grain" as ordered by Black Shirt Dictator Benito Mussolini (TIME...
...Rome last week, strutting Crown Prince Umberto, flushed and bold in the new popularity which followed his escape from assassination (TIME, Nov. 4), was reported to have differed with Signor Benito Mussolini over...
Unhesitatingly some 10,000 gentlemen of Verona signed last week Roberto Lops's petition begging Benito Mussolini to order that: 1) Women's dresses must not be translucent, close fitting or low cut. 2) Elbows must be covered. 3) Stockings must be some other color than "flesh." 4) Skirts for "young girls" must extend below the knee, for "young ladies" below the calf...