Word: benito
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...Last February one George Richardson, expelled Mosleyite Fascist, sued for damages claiming that the Mosleyites not only copied Benito Mussolini's Black Shirts but also II Duce's notorious punishment of forcing victims to drink pints of castor...
...heavy-jowled man in the full dress of a Prime Minister turned to the Deputies and told them to sit down. They sat. Benito Mussolini read out in a fine commanding voice the oath of fidelity to the King and Constitution. He ended with: "I swear," and raised his right arm in the Fascist salute. Next he read out the names of the new Deputies in alphabetical order. Each rose at his name, raised his arm and said, "I swear...
...Rome. Nervous after an exhausting week in which he had endeavored to balance Italy's lopsided budget by cutting government salaries from 6% to 12%, ordering rents and the prices in government-controlled stores reduced from 12% to 15%, and raising bachelors' income taxes 10% and 25%, Benito Mussolini strode to the balcony to make a speech...
...spots in the Fascist public works project, an elevenmile double-track railway tunnel through the Etruscan Appennines between Bologna and Florence which will cut seven hours from the run between Naples and Milan. Because work on the tunnel was first started 20 years ago, it was inaugurated not by Benito Mussolini but by little King Vittorio Emmanuele III, who stopped in his private car at the tunnel's mouth to dedicate a fountain to the memory of 98 workmen who lost their lives while the tunnel was building...
...before the end of his term as President of France. An attractive daughter who bore the name of Marthe Graves was a student in the Sorbonne where she met and married Enzo de Bonze, excitable young son of an Italian general, who had fled Italy at the coming of Benito Mussolini. The de Bonzes had three children, were divorced in 1930. Recently Enzo de Bonze sought a reconciliation with his wife. Calling on her on Friday the Thirteenth, he shot himself right before the eyes of his horrified mother-in-law. He died later in the day. A heavy police...