Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interviewed by U. S. citizens last week Prime Minister Benito Mussolini said: ¶"To me birth control is a crime." (Il Duce has two daughters, three sons.) ¶"Prohibition itself can accomplish nothing. I myself closed 25,000 superfluous wine shops throughout Italy in one year. Moderation is the thing! More good can be done by providing people with good beer and wine and by discouraging cocktails and whiskey than by prohibition...
Commander Waters suddenly took an early page out of Benito Mussolini's book and, in the spirit of Il Duce's 1922 march on Rome, proclaimed himself the veterans' dictator. He conducted an election "so there wouldn't be any kicks," discharged disgruntled officers. His bronzed face and yellow hair glistened proudly as he strode out to the Anacostia camp next day in whipcord breeches and shiny riding boots. He summoned his men and began barking the new order of the day. There were to be daily drill periods henceforth...
...group of anti-Fastisti who plotted his death in Paris cafe corners. Premier Benito Mussolini is known as "The Big Dog." In Rome last week two Italians who had tried unsuccessfully to blow "The Big Dog" into small bits met the special death that Italy reserves for spies and traitors-shooting in the back. Last summer 13 bombs exploded in Genoa, Bologna and Turin, killing three idlers and a policeman. One Genoese bombing almost coincided with the arrival of King Vittorio Emanuele. In September another bomb went off in a Genoese apartment, killing the mother of one Domenico Bovone. Police...
...years. Bovone signed a plea for clemency, Sbardellotto scornfully waved the paper aside. Next morning at daybreak in the courtyard of Fort Bravetta they were chained to chairs. While 500 militiamen shouted, "A Noi!" (To us!), a firing squad smashed the plotters' backs with hard Fascist bullets. "For Benito Mussolini!" cried the commander. "Forward March...
Professor Phelps also visited Rome, but Benito Mussolini joined him in no long Yale cheers...