Word: deputiesâ
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...officers. Of the 9,650,570 males qualified to vote (females having no franchise), 8,506,576 voted as II Duce wished, only 999,830 stayed at home, and a minute 148,064 balloted to reject the solid Fascist slate of 400 hand-picked candidates for the Chamber of Deputies???the only candidates allowed to run. Rejection of the slate? which no one for a moment believed remotely possible?would have meant simply the holding of a new election. Statistics often lie, but last week's election statistics prove that those Italians who went to the polls are 98 28/100...
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