Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best advantage; you do not even snap his picture with his hand raised aloft, taken at a time when he was trying to silence enthusiastic friends and admirers. You do not picture him in such a pose, because you think a casual observer will think he were a Fascist or a Nazi. Why do you not come right out in the open and say Belgrano is Fascist? You do not dare, because you know it is untrue. Still you seek to create that as an impression...
Centuries of parliamentary tradition have left His Majesty's realm with almost no political plug-uglies, millions of loyal subjects overwhelmingly convinced that violence has no place in politics. Last week svelte, high-waisted Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, rich Fascist, decided to reform his Black Shirt movement into two sections. Members of the first or so-called "elite section" must be firm believers in violence as an instrument of party policy...
Black Shirt henchmen said that the precise degree of dedication is calculated from the number of meetings a Mosleyite has attended, his degree of proficiency in Fascist drill and the amount of his success in selling by door-to-door canvassing methods Sir Oswald's party organ, The Black Shirt...
...composer of Cavalleria Rusticana was conducting the premiere of Nero, his 18th opera. The occasion brought forth Italy wide acclaim because, besides having written one brief masterpiece, Pietro Mascagni has been a shrewd and ardent Fascist. Government authorities boosted the new opera long before it was performed, announced that Mascagni had captured ''the true spirit of Imperial Rome.'' Mascagni claimed that he had been mulling over the Nero theme for 40 years, that his enthusiasm had lately been rekindled by ''Fascist exaltation...
...radical. And to carry out his ideas, Louis had to banish recalcitrant politically-minded poets like Victor Hugo, even as Hitler had to banish writers like Lion Feuchtwanger. Some people, indeed, have seen in Louis Napoleon the father of the modern "planned State," have even called him "the first Fascist...