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Each morning last week, in his monstrous office, Il Duce's heart was not cheered by the reports on the country's state of mind given him by Chief of Italian Police Arturo Bocchini. Italy's Himmler-an efficient, honest, courageous, unpublicized bustler who hangs a sign over his desk which says: "Please make it snappy"-daily reported the findings of his intricate wiretapping, eavesdropping machine, and the sum of the findings was not to Il Duce's taste: Italians want peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: No. 1 Facist | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...have a Wall St. representative actually on the trading floor. Such a representative he has found in his nephew, Ruloff Cutten.† If Uncle Cutten is the brain of the combination, Nephew Cutten is certainly its vigorous tongue, its potent legs. There is no more active bustler on the floor of the exchange than Nephew Cutten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Blair-Rockefeller | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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