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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...
...study the problem of using them as a basis for a new legislative body to replace the Chamber of Deputies. Last July he approved plans under which both the National Council of Corporations and the National Council of the Fascist Party (not to be confused with the Fascist Grand Council) would combine in a Chamber of Fasces and Corporations. Last October the Fascist Grand Council decreed the abolition of the old Chamber. Last December the Chamber obediently held its last session, sang Giovinezza, passed unanimously Signor Mussolini's anti-Semitic laws and cheerfully voted its own death...
...curious reporter has ever had a peek at the Grand Council's list but best Rome gossip says Mussolini's successor is likely to be Signor Balbo, Governor of Libya...
Died. Frank Dwight Fitzgerald, 54, Governor of Michigan, who last fall defeated for re-election Franklin Roosevelt's great & good friend, Frank Murphy; of a heart attack following influenza; in Grand Ledge, Mich...
...Disney, Okla., when dynamite blasting on the Grand River dam site prevented his eggs from hatching, Justice of the Peace C. S. Bivens equipped his hens' nests with bed springs...