Word: ils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Il Duce was husbanding in Milan, but in addition...
...Paid a flying visit to the offices and adjoining printing plant of his onetime newspaper Il Popolo d'ltalia, now conducted by his tousled-haired brother Arnaldo. When Brother Benito strode in, unannounced, at the busy hour of midnight, he found Brother Arnaldo hard at work in his shirt-sleeves and bade him by a gesture to continue. Passing on into the news and composing rooms Il Duce greeted many an old employe by name and by clapping him in fatherly fashion upon the back. Pausing before the ink-stained composing room roller towel he beamed and cried with...
...Prime Minister Mussolini-speeches which had seemed to place them on opposite sides of a dispute as to whether the education of Italian youths shall be purely secular and Fascist, or partially religious and Roman Catholic (TIME, April 9). Round 1 of the apparent quarrel had ended when Il Duce backed up his speech by suppressing all non-Fascist youth organizations, including the Roman Catholic Boy Scouts. Therefore it behooved the Vatican to explain, last week, that no quarrel had ever existed. The task of tidying up and if possible effacing the whole incident fell to a remarkable man: Count...
...ratifying Il Duce's decree suppressing the Catholic Boy Scouts...
...never grants interviews. While in Manhattan he lives at the Hotel Astor, but he likes Milan better. He always dines in his own apartment, eats little and preferably Italian food. Like Lord Rothermere and Il Duce (see page 18), he never smokes. He sleeps five hours a night, with his dog Pictiu, a Brussels griffon given him by Frances Alda, beside him in a basket. He shaves himself-and with a safety razor...