Word: duces
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Holworthy, but Young remembers they were always being booed and hissed down. Only the Matthews Tarzan was hailed. Well, pretty soon it got to the point when it was a mob scene--it reminded Young of one of those Mussolini rallies where the crowd was screaming for II Duce. "We started to get worried about the large crowds when hourlies came along," Young says...
...gambling, narcotics trafficking and bootlegging to extortion, assault and homicide. Galante first gained respect within the Mafia for his suspected involvement in the murder of Carlo Tresca, an Italian-American newspaper editor and enemy of Benito Mussolini; police believed that Tresca was knocked off at the urging of il Duce himself...
...social reformer that he was as Lyndon Johnson's Budget Director, he has lately been preaching a free-market version of social activism. He has urged the Government to rely less on new laws and massive programs and more on subsidies, taxes and other incentives that might in duce private industry to solve problems like pollution and unemployment...
Pound praised II Duce in his book of 1935, Jefferson and/or Mussolini, for all of the usual things: "grano, bonifica, restauri, grain, swampdrainage, restorations, new buildings..." But clearly he was as much as anything else, carried away by his own rhetoric. In the same tome he called Mussolini an "OPPORTUNIST who is RIGHT," an "AWARE INTELLIGENCE," who was introducing "a new LANGUAGE in the debates in the chamber." He was according to Pound, a statesman of "deep 'concern' or will for the welfare of Italy," right down to "the last ploughman and the last girl in the oliveyards...." It seems...
...began broadcasting. Heymann has turned up evidence that some even thought Pound was mad: "There is no doubt in my mind that Ezra Pound is insane!" wrote the manager of the National Institute of Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. Heymann shows that even as early as 1935 II Duce's office had criticized a plan devised by Pound as "eccentric" and "conceived by a foggy mind." Yet, Heymann apparently has no evidence as to why Pound's broadcasts were finally accepted; it remains a mystery of the Fascist bureaucracy...