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...Catholic Mutual Aid Societies, which have furnished sickness and old-age insurance to peasants and workers. For 17 years Fascists let these peaceable, efficient, non-political societies alone. The State's new interest seemed centred in the organization's capital reserves of several hundred million lire...
Melon-headed Son Bruno Mussolini, 21, whose sporting feats include bombing (Abyssinians and Spaniards), automobile racing and transatlantic hopping, won another prize. At Riccione, Italy, driving the favorite in a trotting race, he came in first, was awarded 4,000 lire...
...Blackshirts, assembled in Rome from all over Italy's knee, shin, heel and toe. The Blackshirts were on a jaunt. All expenses to and from Rome had been paid. In their pockets were fine crisp bank notes, "prizes" for Fascist merits, ranging from 500 to 2,000 lire. All this conspired to confuse them when Il Duce rhetorically touched on the subject of self-sacrifice. Confidently expecting a negative answer, he threw back his head and bellowed: "Do you want riches? Do you want glory? Do you want honors?" Their eyes bulging with the prospect of more booty...
...Also short on cash are: 1) Italy, where the 1939-40 budget last week revealed that during the next fiscal year Italy will suffer an unexpected 4,755,000,000 lire ($237,750,000) deficit, largely due to arms expansion; 2) France, where the Chamber of Deputies last week worked on the greatest arms budget since the World War which, in its ordinary and extraordinary appropriations, upped last year's budget...
...hours at a steady trot. However, no nimble-footed sharpshooter was brash enough to forge ahead and when the startled populace at Faenza rushed into the streets to welcome Il Duce, he was still in the lead. Congratulating the Bersaglieri on their condition, he gave their commander 3,000 lire ($157) to buy them special mess kits...