Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blood speaks! I must listen to my blood." Thus Signor Mussolini is wont to explain the promptings of his extraordinary political intuition- promptings which he has ever translated into action with disconcerting speed. Last week these sanguinary omens may be presumed to have fired his brain afresh. While most Italians slept he harangued a meeting of all but one of his ministers. By morning a sheaf of Cabinet decrees were issued which bade fair to alter the whole course of daily life in Italy. Decrees. I. Italian employers are empowered at once and until further notice to lengthen the working...
...comment it was plain that Italy's continued excess of imports over exports has at length roused II Duce to legislate frugality upon his people. He is himself, un uomo magro (a lean man), a man who is "fit." Less wine and more coarse flour will toughen jovial Italian paunches into the likeness of his own muscular diaphragm. Less gasoline will be imported, less white flour, less newspaper pulp, less superfluous building material...
...stabilization of the lira. Millions of hours of extra labor at no extra cost will provide a surplus for the carrying out of II Duce's triumphant program of building up the army and navy, of restoring the public buildings and monuments of Rome and other Italian cities to the splendor of Augustan days. Missing Minister. Though Mussolini sped the issuance of his Cabinet's decrees behind locked portals, the reported absence from this vital session of Minister of Interior Luigi Federzoni loomed of major import. Signor Federzoni is suave, aristocratic, bland. His voice has a low vibrant...
...much money. There is a shell hole scene in this one, too. Somehow no one has recaptured the ferocity and the coarse laughter of the fighting as well as did The Big Parade. The war stuff in Puppets is particularly weak. The rest of the picture is about an Italian master of marionettes who leaves Manhattan to fight. His wife attempts to carry on his sideshow. None of it exacts breathless attention...
Meanwhile, a delegation from marble and granite producing states, protested to Assistant Secretary of War MacNider against the use of Italian or French marble in the crosses and headstones to be placed in American cemeteries in Europe. Italian and French bids are $14.50 and $19.00 a headstone respectively, while the lowest...