Word: duces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country such as Italy, where the chamber was normally composed of perhaps a dozen parties, none greatly preponderating, this law gave to the leading party (Fascismo) absolute and wholly disproportionate power. Result: prior to its royal dissolution the 27th Chamber passed over 2,000 laws pleasing to Il Duce, without possibility of their being effectively debated or opposed...
...second decree signed last week by Italy's short, bantamweight King, established the new supreme organ of state, the Fascist Grand Council (TIME, Oct. 1), by appointing 44 puissant Fascisti to sit as "the first two categories" of the Council. Il Duce was understood to be powerfully meditating on which Fascists he will tell His Majesty to appoint in the third category...
Originally swart, nervous, cynical Roberto Farinacci was famed as the Castor Oil Man of Fascismo. Politicians who rashly opposed Il Duce were ambushed and forced to swallow a pint, a quart, even a sickening gallon of what Farinacci called his "golden nectar of nausea." As Secretary General of the Fascist Party he wielded Ku-Klux powers of life and death. His last notorious, outrageous exploit was to warp the very fibre of Italian Justice and get off virtually scot free the Fascist murderers of the multimillionaire Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, April 5, 1926). Leading U. S. correspondents have since...
...Highest Duce...
Concluding furiously, Editor Carli hinted that it might be well to exclude tourists from Italy, and gloried in the fact that this would mean the closing of thousands of Italian hotels. "So much the better! Then our hotel keepers would invest their capital in Il Duce's land reclamation project, in our colonies, in scientific research, industries, and armaments...