Word: mussolin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rumors. Strange rumors escaped last week from behind the Fascist censor's dark screen so carefully adjusted to shut out all but the glories of Fascismo. It was told by a pressman at Basel, Switzerland, that Mussolin's intestinal complaint now makes it necessary for him to subsist chiefly on milk and rice, and he seeks forgetfulness from sharp internal pains by playing on the violin when he cannot sleep. At Lugano, Switzerland, another journalist just returned from Italy declared that Roberto Farinacci, who recently resigned (TIME, April 12), as Secretary General of the Fascist Party, has definitely turned against...
This move, according to Signor Mussolini's cabinet, will end the incompetence which is corollary to petty political warfare, and substitute "an organ of government above parties." The Fascisti are apparently resolved to introduce more competence and more of themselves into Italian politics, for, as Signor Mussolin frankly admits, "You cannot govern with words...
...Yale football games played by two men would best express it. The judges were all of neutral nationality. At last this Frenchman who; whereupon the Italians, in their first burst of disappointment, accused the judges of unfairness, picked up their weapons, and marched out of the hall singing Viva Mussolin!" By the next morning, of course, they had cooled down and had apologized, Yet there was a final ripple to the excitement that illustrates beautifully, considered themselves insulted by the Italians accusations-all, that is, save one American judge, who took the whole affair as a joke. Whereupon the Italian...
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