Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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, the crumbling roof gaped open at his feet and fellow Fascists had to jerk him back to safety...
...Il Duce, once established, sent Prince Caetani to Washington as Ambassador. In two years he exhausted every means of trying to make U. S. citizens see his own vision of Fascism as a regime giving Italy an imposed, Augustan and salutary peace...
...Duke Onorato, which comprised by far the largest estate in Italy, a virtual principality within the realm. Only bachelor Prince Gelasio, with no child to whom he could leave his share of the Caetani lands, kept all he could and was among the first Italian proprietors to cooperate with Il Duce in Fascism's vast project of land reclamation. As an engineer, the Prince, trained in the U. S. for such work, was gripped and fascinated by the political concept of Benito Mussolini: an Italy so developed by land reclamation that for the first time in modern history...
...envoy of George V publicly urged that the dollar and the pound be pegged together, no doubt would exist that His Majesty's Government desired such stabilization. If one of Benito Mussolini's Undersecretaries of State called upon nations to create a World-wide Planned Economic Order, Il Duce's stand would be clear. Last week, however, White House correspondents could not get the President to say Yes-or-No when they asked if he approved proposals for monetary stabilization and world planning solemnly made in Europe by men whose duty was to keep silent if they...
...states to cooperate in preventing political assassinations. Informally they then discussed with correspondents the many rumors that terrorists, escaped from Jugoslavia, have been harbored in Hungary in circumstances suggesting that their keep might have been paid by Italians who felt that King Alexander was too stanch a bulwark against Il Duce's aspirations in the Adriatic...