Word: fascisti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite phrase among Italian Fascisti is "changing of the guard." It refers to a supposedly fixed policy of rotating the Party's big men in the State's big jobs; actually it is usually used to make crucial political shifts seem casual and routine. Last week, when Italy's hierarchy was violently shaken up, the phrase was shouted loud on Rome's seven hills. But no amount of inspired pooh-poohing could make the changes unimportant...
...Colonist Andrew Stonberg favored the barbiche, a short beard covering the entire chin, currently favored by young Italian Fascisti...
...field of modern Italian literature the exhibit contains some of the poems of Adolfo Bosis, the young Italian flier who lost his life when flying over Rome in order to drop anti-Fascisti pamphlets on the city. There is also a collection of the poems of Ada Negri, Nobel Prize winner, one of the poets to gain praise from Mussolini...
Black. In Atlanta, like the Klan, the American Fascisti (Order of Black Shirts) have their headquarters (claimed membership: 30,000). For a $3 application fee they promise an "up-to-the-minute ritual and all the new features that a new Fraternity should have" to those who believe in ''a Supreme Being . . . in the leadership and supremacy of the White Race . . . a Bible in every school . . . Old Glory floating over every public building." They urgently oppose atheism and Communism...
...arms during the last month because a Fascist official demanded that Arturo Toscanini play "Giovinezza" at a memorial concert in Bologna devoted to the works of his friend, the late Giuseppe Martucci (1856- 1909). It was even more natural that the world should become indignant because a group of Fascisti assaulted him for his refusal...