Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stresa," remarked Benito Mussolini one day last week, pausing an instant as he dictated Fascist orders of the day. "Get Stresa ready for a conference on April 11. Veneer the railway station with marble. Repave the principal streets. Clean up everything-the usual precautions. And don't spend more than 2,000,000 lire...
Next day slumbering Stresa on the blossom-dotted rim of Lago Maggiore sprang to life. Excited Fascist workmen ripped up the main street from end to end. They had all but demolished the stuffy little station when an architect front Rome arrived, his mind full of modernism and marble. Snappily accoutred Fascist militiamen and plainclothes agents in all conceivable disguises arrived to put Stresa and its basking tourists under careful scrutiny. "Now that Hitler has defied the world, and Nazi agents are kidnapping and even murdering small fry abroad," said a Fascist corporal of militia grimly, "who knows what outrage...
Many people get the jitters when they think of the possibility of Huey Long in the White House. Last week Senator Robinson, who gets riled by him, described him as a Red. Communists call him a Fascist. In truth he is just about as much of a Red, just about as much of a Fascist, as the late Boss Tweed-no more and no less...
...desire to say to the whole Italian people," he told a cheering Italian throng last week on the 16th anniversary of the founding of the Fascist Party, "that no event whatsoever will find us unprepared...
Died. Gerald Charles MacGuire, 38, bond salesman (Grayson M.P. Murphy & Co.) whom Major General Smedley D. Butler last November charged had approached him with an offer to lead a Fascist march on Washington (TIME, Dec. 3); of uremia and pneumonia; in New Haven, Conn. His brother, William J. MacGuire, declared that his death was the result of the "unjust charges...