Word: benito
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Today alphabetical rotation has made brilliant, moon-faced Comrade Litvinoff the League Council's President. Last week he and Benito Mussolini fenced with pussywillows...
...shadow of Benito Mussolini, generally from three to ten paces behind him on all public occasions, strides pantherlike Achille Starace. If the Dictator ever develops an Achilles' heel, most Italians feel that Starace is in a position to pierce it. As Secretary of the Party he holds the key post from which Joseph Stalin in another land succeeded another Dictator. Last week Italian society in general and Fascist bigwigs in particular digested uneasily a Party bulletin in which they were lashed by Achille Starace, steel-nerved, steel-muscled Apotheosis of Action...
...major moves by which Benito Mussolini jacked his country above the status of a second-class power was to put the lira, previously a wobbly joke currency, squarely on gold (TIME, Jan. 2, 1928). Soon at Pesaro the Lira Monument was reared, cut deep with II Duce's promise to defend the gold lira to the last drop of Italian blood. Since then nothing has occurred to convince the Dictator that any other statesman who inflates, debases or trifles with currency values is not dead wrong. Last week with U. S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Baldwin and Japanese...
Foreigners with no taste for such blood & thunder could have instead from Fascist Playwright Luigi Pirandello, as that Nobel Prizeman landed in Manhattan last week, a comparison of Abraham Lincoln to Benito Mussolini who is going to free the slaves of Ethiopia. People interested in neither atrocities nor slaves but with a taste for the mystic were provided for by Fascist Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio. "You are going to victory," he informed departing Italian volunteers. "It is so inexorable-I wish to say fatal- to conquer...
...Much as Benito Mussolini goes to King Vittorio Emanuele III to get his decrees perfunctorily signed, Pierre Laval & Cabinet then called at the ornate Elysee Palace of sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun. It took M. le President until 2:30 a. m. to sign the 28 decrees. They were emphatically in the Mussolini spirit, diametrically opposed to the Roosevelt...