Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snappiest, most widely printed anecdote of the year about Signore Benito Mussolini was the tale of how he was recently "enticed" to the U. S. Embassy for tea by Mrs. John Work Garrett, greeted by Ambassador Garrett carrying a loaded pistol to protect the Dictator's life...
...expressed his vexation against "even more intense, vast and impudent Protestant propaganda, sometimes open and reasoned, sometimes subtle and deceitful. . . . Advantage is being taken of ignorance and simplicity, coupled with misery and hunger." Proselyting by non-Catholics is illegal in Italy, whose State religion is Roman Catholicism. Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, once a vigorous now a discreet disbeliever, last week said he would soon reply to this invective. Mixed Marriage...
...lopped from the budgets of all ministries -that is, from all but the war budget. The Italian Army will cost $156,000,000 next year; the navy, $80.923,000; the air force, $40,000.000. Two days previously Signore Mussolini forewarned the Senate of the impending cut. "But," shouted Benito to the long-faced Senators, "are there any among you who think that in this moment, when everyone else is arming powerfully by bleeding the people, it would be just for Italy to neglect its elementary and indispensable defenses and run the mortal danger of annihilation...
...Among those who blame Wall Street is Benito Mussolini...
...Dictator Benito Mussolini has a wife, but neither the Italian Embassy nor the Prime Minister's office will divulge the place or date of his marriage, which antiFascists charge never took place...