Word: duces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With almost the entire country in a pre-election state of mind owing to Premier Mussolini's action in closing, locking, bolting and barring Parliament (TIME, Dec. 24), Italian political circles suffered from a severe attack of nerves when "il duce" (the leader-Mussolini) wrote to Signor Carnazza, Minister of Public Works, and said he "had not decided" to hold general elections...
...Corriere della Sera, Milanese journal, has had a hard row to hoe since Fascism came into vogue. Although it has been moderate to the point of insipidity in its adverse criticism of Fascismo and "il duce " (Mussolini), that did not prevent three bombs being thrown into the newspaper's building in Milan. Signor Albertini, the editor, attributed the outburst to a violent article which recently appeared in Il Popolo d'ltalia, allegedly Signor Mussolini's newspaper...
...Landau there had been little change and the surrounding region had altered little. The Saar valley, on the other hand, had shared the industrial development of the most prosperous parts of the Rheinprovinz its coal mines and those of the neighboring villages of the Palatinate had come to pro- duce 17,500,000 tons of coal a year. Numerous industrial establishments had grown up. To the north and west the lines of industrial towns were almost unbroken. More than 355,000 people now lived between the Saar frontiers of 1814 and 1815 and as many more in the adjoining regions...