Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that its opposition is tolerated for decorative effect? There is. Giovanni Giolitti, five times Premier, and his twelve "independents" who boast that their votes are cast according to the merits of every question, are tolerated by the 384 Fascists who virtually make up the Chamber. Last week, as the bill presented was of vital import Communist Deputy Costantino Lazzari tried to fight his way into the Chamber armed with an umbrella which he wielded vigorously. Strong Fascist arms expelled...
Expulsion. While the Premier still sat motionless, Secretary General Turati of the Fascist Party leaped to his feet and rattled off a bill permanently unseating the Aventine Opposition and the Communists, who were, of course, not present...
...Deputies filed past the rostrum depositing their ballots they chanted a Fascist song: "Youth!! Youth!! Springtime of Beauty. . . ." The bill passed 293 to 10. As the vote was announced...
...bill having been introduced there was no debate. The judicial committee retired to an anteroom and inspected the bill for 45 minutes. While they were gone Signor Mussolini relaxed, chatted with his Ministers, smiled and nodded as the Deputies and gallery roared plaudits. When the Committee returned and reported favorably on the bill Premier Mussolini stalked to the ballot box. "FOR FASCISM!" he cried, and cast his vote. Three hundred and forty-one Fascists voted with him. The Giolittists cast against him twelve innocuous and well stage-managed votes. It is significant that one-time Premier Giolitti had the reputation...
...highest circulation in the U. S. Last year, Publisher Hearst, who had grabbed Arthur Brisbane from the World 30 years ago, lured Philip Payne to the Daily Mirror. Many a circulation war did these snarling sheetlets wage. The Mirror once decided to help the Government popularize the $2 bill by printing the numbers of such bills and giving away $100 daily to whoever found them in circulation. Incidentally, chicle-masticators began to buy the Mirror to find lucky numbers. The News replied with the same stunt for $1 bills. Whereupon the Mirror bleated...