Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, Nov. 5 said "Starting a new slum clearance drive in Rome, Benito Mussolini bounded to the roof of a moldering hovel, swung a housewrecker's pick with spectacular results. As Il Duce's suspenders snapped and he grabbed for his trousers...
...news photographs from Rome this week picturing Il Duce striking the blow with his pick, also plainly show him wearing a belt out-side a sweater...
...that Il Duce is more cautious than one takes...
Though hirsute Fascist underlings were reported in a barber's rush to become smooth-faced last week, Air Marshal Italo Balbo, one of the few blackshirts who has ever talked back to Il Duce, remained bearded...
Manhood will not come until Il Duce feels able to withdraw his personal guidance from the manifold and multiplex organs of state he is creating. Today they are in virile flux. The goal is to create government by men responsible not primarily to geographical constituencies or obedient to the results of counting noses; but government by men drawn from the ranks of production representing primarily agriculture and industry, labor and capital, trade and the professions. In the General Assembly sat last week not "the Deputy from Padua" but, in effect, "the Deputy from Wheat," "the Deputy from Mercury, " "the Deputy...