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...right, from the Fascist point of view, because his blackshirt youth organizations are machine-tailoring more soldiers than the Army conscript system. The Army numbers 250,000, but the Fascist Volunteer Militia, armed, drilled and equipped with every modern weapon, has reached nearly 400,000, with more youths constantly pushing up from the Avanguardisti which is fed in turn by the Fascist-drilled moppets who grow up constantly out of the Balilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Excelsior! | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...Paulino is a formidable adversary. . . . All I can say is that Blackshirt Primo Carnera will fight with unshakeable faith and will keep the heavyweight championship in Fascist Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gran Sasso | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

...Though he lisps, the tone and personality of General Balbo are pugnacious, virile, truculent. *Blackest stain on the reputation of Blackshirt Benito Mussolini is the widespread notion that he personally ordered the assassination of the multi-millionaire Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, who was unquestionably done to Death by Fascists (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hoover not Outhoovered | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...against a cut which reduced their wage to twelve lira (62?) per day. For its first four days the strike was like any other, then bands of Fascist militia began to converge upon the district. In a sense, II Duce's "corporative state" was on trial. Presumably his blackshirt militia would break the strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: First Strike | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...crack detachment of the Fascist blackshirt militia, nicknamed "Mussolini's Musketeers," mounted guard at the church as the wedding party swept up in eight automobiles. Among the few, distinguished guests who were allowed to squeeze into the small church, the U. S. was represented by Ambassador and Mrs. John W. Garrett, by enigmatic Mrs. Wurts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Astonishing Nuptials | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

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