Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian adventure in Ethiopia was a direct threat to the lifeline of the British Empire: control of the Mediterranean. From the beginning British diplomacy held to the dogged belief that Benito Mussolini was bluffing. Loudly His Majesty's Government demanded Sanctions, only to discover that Italy would fight if the League attempted to enforce its orders...
...early tea of Foreign Minister Anthony Eden last Sunday was the bitterest brew he had ever had to swallow. Read the dispatches any way he would, there was only one conclusion: Benito Mussolini had effectively smashed Ethiopia, wrecked the League of Nations and given British prestige an enormous black...
Wolf-fed Romulus was supposed to have founded Rome 2,689 years ago by plowing a furrow round the seven hills with a span of oxen. Repeating the same gesture, Benito Mussolini in full-dress uniform strode across a vast field to where a brand new tractor plow was standing near a crowd of spectators. First came a speech with clenched fists, outthrust jaw, harsh voice, sweating brow...
...shall found the city of Pomezia, which will be dedicated Oct. 29, 1939. Only then will our work be completed and new victories will be added to those which the Italians have attained." "Doo-chay! Doo-chay!" chanted the crowd as the imperial mask cracked and Benito Mussolini beamed with pleasure. Leaping to the driver's seat of the tractor, he threw in the clutch, sent the machine careening off in a 100-ft. circle to mark not the boundaries of Aprilia, but the foundation of Aprilia's town hall. Above the clatter of the engine he roared...
...accidents of the Show's alphabetical arrangement by artists' names brought side by side the works of Benito Nuno, patriot, and Benjamin S. Ovryn, revolutionary. Nuno's Our Leader presents President Roosevelt, glorified, benevolent, beaming at various U. S. phenomena climaxed by a copy of Motion Picture Magazine. For the Left, Ovryn gives the same central position in his study of The Imperial Way to Russia's Dictator Joseph Stalin, topped by a villainous crew of imperialists: Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller Sr., Britain's Stanley Baldwin, France's Pierre Laval...