Word: duces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benito Mussolini last week fired his son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, the galloping gallant of Fascism, and took to himself the cabinet portfolios of War, Navy, Air, Interior, Foreign Affairs. Said Il Duce, explaining the dismissal of Foreign Minister Ciano and eleven other leading members of the Government...
...this delicate phase of the conflict," said Il Duce, "I, Mussolini, am assuming the entire burden of the conduct of political and military operations...
...proud name, a "jewel city." They saw logic in Mussolini's empire-mongering when Tripolitania produced olives, grapes, barley, wheat, almonds and figs for the homeland. It cost millions of lire to get production started, but the returns were in food, not, as in other of Il Duce's ventures, in crippled and dead soldiers...
...reopen the completed Bob Hope-Dorothy Lamour comedy, They Got Me Covered, for addition of a sequence depicting, perhaps prophetically, the flight of Mussolini from Italy. In preparing the actor for the role, the makeup and wardrobe departments used TIME, Dec. 14, for the most characteristic pose of II Duce...
...Duce's office door...