Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First important Mussolini innovation was the creation of the Fascist Grand Council, a body of Fascist bigwigs. Permanent members now are Il Duce and the three surviving Quadrumvirs of the March on Rome-Italo Balbo, Marshal Emilio De Bono, Count Cesare Maria de Vecchi. (Michele Bianchi, the fourth, died in 1930.) Other members are the President of the Senate and 22 more, from Cabinet members to the commander-in-chief of the Fascist Militia...
...surge of parliamentarianism-was not. Since 1925 (when Il Duce squelched all opposition) its chief activities have been to applaud Dictator Mussolini when he rose to speak, cheer him when he sat down and pass hastily and without debate any and all bills he wanted passed. Although 100% Fascist and a complete rubber stamp, the Chamber nevertheless remained a relic of the recent parliamentary past...
...this year's triangular Harvard-Yale-Princeton debate and for the Coolidge prized will be held on April 18, 21, and 24, the Debating Council announced yesterday. The question for the debate will be "Resolved: That the United States should orient its foreign policy in vigorous opposition to the Fascist powers...
...become a dynamic dictator like Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and join them in adventures against the peace of the world? Or will he simply be a routine, domestic military dictator of the type of Primo de Rivera, his predecessor? Will his government-after the war is over-be Fascist or will he restore the monarchy...
Year and a half ago, when the Cagoulard ("Hooded Men'') Fascist conspiracy was discovered, police searched Paris for arms deposits. At the home of Mme Baudoin they found a machine gun and other war like implements. She was tried and convicted for unlawful possession of arms...