Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tore over her 600-mi. course at an average speed of 28 knots, became unofficially "the world's fastest liner."* At times her 125,,000 h. p. turbines drove her bulb-stemmed hull 29 knots. With her smaller sister the S. S. Conte di Savoia, she is Il Duce's supreme bid for traffic over the longer, warmer, and some say smoother southern route. When the Rex ploughs up New York Harbor seven days out of Naples on her maiden voyage in October, she will have sliced two full days from the southern run. With Italy only...
Until last week nobody considered "Jimmy" Walker a quitter. Even after he turned out to be the first Mayor of New York to resign under fire, hundreds of thousands of citizens refused to think the worst of him. Radio Crooner Morton Downey, Publisher Generoso Pope (Il Progresso-Italo-Americano) and Theatre Man Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal were among the first to rush to his flower-filled Mayfair apartment on Park Avenue where he was lolling around in blue silk pajamas and assure him that, even out of office, he was still "the greatest fellow on earth...
...Il Duce Benito Mussolini has never been one to bow to mass opinion, nor is he above giving the retort discourteous to those who dare criticize his actions. Five weeks ago there were murmurs of disapproval when he jolted the entire Fascist organization with the biggest shake-up in years, deposed ministers right and left and assumed two Cabinet posts himself. The hopes of those who felt that Fascism should have outgrown the necessity for such moves were withered last week by Il Duce's announcement that he was thinking seriously of taking over three more Cabinet posts, the Ministries...
...films, struggling against Italian quota regulations, received another blow. Word came from Il Duce through Italian Ambassador Giacomo de Martino that unless Paramount's version of Ernest Hemingway's Farewell to Arms is revamped to remove all reference to the disastrous Italian retreat from Caporetto during the War, all future Paramount films will be banned from Italy. Further, this may apply to all U. S. films if the present tendency to depict Italians as villains and naughty fellows is not corrected...
Sirs: In your magazine of July 11 under the title "Heroes" you say: "Commander Waters suddenly took an early page out of Benito Mussolini's book and, in the spirit of Il Duce's 1922 march on Rome, proclaimed himself the veterans' dictator." May I suggest that Commander Waters can be compared to Mussolini as a rabbit can be compared to a lion? When Mussolini decided the march on Rome, before he reached the capital, H. M. the King of Italy wired him, asking to form a new Cabinet. Mussolini's followers, the "Black Shirts," were...