Word: ils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newsgatherers, who present only Il Duce, ruthless, blatant, were vexed by this unmasking of the quiet, singularly winning man who Signor Mussolini can become when he chooses...
Power, speed, all the more striking manifestations of FORCE are part of the great legend of Mussolinism which Il Duce daily bolsters up by fiery speeches and darting trips at the wheel of a racing car. Last week, as his own Minister of Marine, he prepared to carry the legend of super-power and superspeed into Italian shipping. Throughout the week he was closeted with designers who proposed two 40-knot an hour liners of 45,000 gross tons each. They would halve the time spent in reaching Rome from Manhattan...
...request Il Duce frowned. Frowned also the perpetually lowering busts of the chief Roman Emperors which stand on pedestals about the new Caesar's office. The citizens of Caltagirone shuffled uneasily, prepared to bow and scuttle...
Fascists snapped to attention last week, carried out curt orders in haste. Il Duce's logical and ruthless spirit was astir. Before the week was out he haded has "an Augustan conception of grandeur." 3) Decreed, to the discomfiture of Fascismo's capitalist well-wishers, that every merchant in Italy must display both the wholesale and retail price of his goods, and must throw open his books to the Government, which will permit him to make no more than what it considers a fair profit. 4) Inaugurated a tax on bachelors, the proceeds of which will be devoted...
...Bailey '27, includes J. R. Barry '27, Robert Bernick '27, T. O. Browster '29, J. P. Crosby '28, J. S. Donaldson '27, J. L. Fitznatrick '27, R. A. Mazowan '27, R. W. Sexten '28, W. E. Soule '27, O. S. Sughrue '27, H. Wendt, Jr., '29, P. W. Williams IL...