Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty's Government in the Union of South Africa said: "We have informed His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom that South Africa will not take advantage of the offer of the Mother Country to forego payments which we owe on our War debt." [Loud cheers.] Benito Mussolini, with characteristic dynamics, had promptly put his Cabinet busily to work figuring out exactly what was to be done. President Hoover was not surprised. He knew they gave up in German reparations and other debt receipts only a little more than they would be relieved of paying...
...centuries of punishment that began last week marked one of the last stages in a campaign that began in May 1926 when Benito Mussolini decided that the secret terrorist organization known as the Sicilian Mafia, the "Black Hand," was a blot on the name of Italy. He commis- sioned Fascist Prefect Cesare Mori of Palermo to eradicate...
...Benito Mussolini cogitated the Hoover plan last week, kept the Italian press from anything more definite than enthusiastic but totally vague expressions...
...Politique, Cest Moi!" That Signor Benito Mussolini was in no humble mood last week was clear from an interview which he rattled off in French to Correspondent Jacques de Marsillac of the Paris Journal...
...Vividly Benito Mussolini described how his own Cabinet and Party works. "In the regime's private meetings we discuss ardently," he said, "but at a certain moment I say: 'The case has been heard!' and the discussion ceases. I then decide and everybody obeys. An oath of obedience is sworn on entering the Fascist party...