Word: duces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the thing had been neatly and swiftly done, Il Duce was-and is-: 1) Minister of Foreign Affairs; 2) Interior; 3) War; 4) Navy; 5) Air; 6) Corporations; and 7) Colonies. Since the Dictator has held the first six of these portfolios for many a month (TIME, June 16), he really did no more last, week than snatch for himself the Ministry of Colonies. Thus he became a One Man Majority of 7/13ths. Additionally, of course, Signor Mussolini is Head of the State (Il Capo), Leader of the Fascist Party (Il Duce), Prime Minister, and Chairman...
...With the Dictator for once scared and shaky, the King was able to insist that Deputy Luigi Federzoni be made Minister of Home Affairs in charge of the police. Smart guessers think they know that Faithful Federzoni then obtained evidence which he and King Vittorio Emanuele held over Il Duce for years afterwards. Eventually however the Dictator felt strong enough to possess himself of the Ministry of Home Affairs, giving the Ministry of Colonies to Federzoni...
...outstanding was the occasion that Donna Rachele Mussolini, meek mother of the Bouncing Babe, was allowed to spend the week in Rome with Il Duce, then took herself and babe off to Milan, her usual residence...
Decrowding should be accomplished, continued Signor Mussolini, by deporting back to the countryside peasant families and individuals who have recently moved cityward. The results to be expected from "a vigorous enforcement of decrowding" are, according to Il Duce: 1) Rural begetting by deported fathers of more babes than they would beget in cities; 2) Relief of urban unemployment, since those deported will leave behind them many an open job; 3) Creation of a large pool of deported peasant laborers who will toil to achieve Signor Mussolini's famed program of "internal land reclamation" upon which the State purposes...
Decrowding by deportation will not begin, announced Il Duce magnanimously, until the expiration of a three months' period of grace...