Word: duces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soon as Il Duce's titles had been inserted, the film was rushed to the Vatican and there viewed with approbation by Pope Pius XI, Son-of-a-Weaver...
...Because the women of Northern Italy are more robust and the men more intelligent than those of the South, II Duce, for racial reasons, expects them to give a big proportion of the additional babies he asks for his campaign...
There are still too many people who boast to have gone to school with Mussolini, or to have shared a meal with him, or to have offered him a cigaret in some railway compartment. There are still too many people, who, in speaking of the "Duce," call him simply Benito. There are jar too many who assert to be on terms of intimacy with him. It is high time to declare before all the world that Benito does not exist any more. Today Mussolini must be known as the "Duce" and only as the "Duce." Nobody has any right...
...largest news organ in Southern Italy, Il Mattino of Naples. Meanwhile, however, a very slight and cautious reaction from such typical abasement was setting in at Rome. There, a diligent official dared to criticise pampered Mario Carli, editor of L'Impero and prime favorite of Il Duce. Recently, Italian wives have been told by Signer Carli that they must bear a son every two years (TIME, Jan. 21); and intending tourists have been called "fat drones" (TIME, Jan. 28) and warned that they are not wanted in Italy, since they are "more of a nuisance than a benefit...
...capacity of Minister of Marine, Il Duce announced, last week, the impending construction of two new Italian 10,000-ton cruisers, two scout ships, four destroyers, five submarines...