Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more democratic states the Doctrine of Ministerial Rotations. Stripped of rhetoric, the Doctrine means that, while France gets a new set of Ministers every time her Cabinet falls, the fact that Prime Minister Benito Mussolini's Cabinet never falls denies to Italy the benefits of periodically infusing new blood and brains into the Government. This Signor Mussolini now proposes to do by "rotating" the Ministries among able statesmen-that is, by kicking out of office, from time to time, dignified statesmen who would ordinarily expect to hold their posts until the Prime Minister himself resigned...
...blood and brains of Il Duce are, of course, assumed to be ceaselessly freshened and renewed, for he personally holds seven Cabinet*- a majority of the total...
...blood and brains which were infused into the Finance Ministry, last week, are those of Senator Antonio Mosconi, aged three score and two, and scion of a noble line whose ancestors began to flourish two centuries before the discovery of America...
...great liberal organ, in 1881. She also owned the Nation, which was edited by Wendell Phillips Garrison, her brother, from 1865 to 1906. In 1900, her husband died. Thereafter, her sons and daughter having grown up, she devoted herself thoroughly to the sort of causes it was in her blood to champion...
...gold-dust friendly "Indians" had found. But the Spaniards' brutality reduced these Indians to a paltry number and, needing laborers, they began importing large numbers of Africans. Before long the color line was so loosely drawn that very few of Santo Domingo's inhabitants could boast unmixed blood. Added to Spanish, Creoles and blacks, were soon the French and English traders, and by the end of the 18th Century French control was so well in the ascendency that Haiti contributed vast wealth to the kingdom of France...