Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secret diplomacy as practiced by Benito Mussolini led in Rome last week to an Italo-French entente of first importance for the peace of Europe. Everything was done, from first to last, in a fashion exactly opposite to that favored by the League of Nations and such optimistic conferencophiles as silver-haired, silver-tongued James Ramsay MacDonald...
TIME-Readers submitted "Man of the Year" nominations for 75 candidates ranging from TIME'S "Man-of-the-Year" Roosevelt (see cover) and Benito Mussolini to Papa Dionne and Mickey Mouse. A wide selection of "also ran" nominations is presented in the Jan. 7 issue of the fortnightly LETTERS, a copy of which will be sent to any TIME-reader on request. Yearly subscription...
...recruit his colonists in distant parts of Italy where the legend of Death was but dimly known. Today middle-class Romans are scrambling for plots on which to build summer homes bordering a pretty lake near one of the new cities in Litoria. The whole project is Benito Mussolini's particular pet, enjoys the enviable status of being operated as a "direct dependency" of the Head of the State. Thus a peasant of Litoria with a grievance may appeal straight to IlCapo del Governo, will almost certainly get instant action...
...Duce on which Italians had their eyes last week was the so-called Lira Monument in the little town of Pesaro. There, eight years ago, when statesmen of the world were unanimously convinced that the gold standard is the only honest monetary standard and must be defended as such, Benito Mussolini uttered the words now cut deep into the marble slab of Pesaro's monument: I SAY TO THE WHOLE CIVILIZED WORLD THAT WE WILL DEFEND THE LIRA TO THE LAST BREATH, TO THE LAST DROP OF BLOOD...
Charge and countercharge cracked back & forth last week between Benito Mussolini and Ethiopia's kinky-haired Emperor Power of Trinity I, as to whose soldiers attacked first at Ualual in eastern Africa (TIME, Dec. 24). Ethiopia sent to the League disconcerting testimony from a British pasturage commissioner on the spot that the Italians had behaved in a manner highly "provocative." Fearing another clash on Ethiopia's border, the Abyssinians last week zealously polished their Japanese arms. Great hero was white-robed Chief Ghogoli who had rallied his dusky horsemen at Ualual so smartly that they were able...