Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier Mussolini nodded silent approval. Later he ordered the expelled Deputies arrested. Fascist police bagged 17, hunted vainly last week for the rest...
...bill having been introduced there was no debate. The judicial committee retired to an anteroom and inspected the bill for 45 minutes. While they were gone Signor Mussolini relaxed, chatted with his Ministers, smiled and nodded as the Deputies and gallery roared plaudits. When the Committee returned and reported favorably on the bill Premier Mussolini stalked to the ballot box. "FOR FASCISM!" he cried, and cast his vote. Three hundred and forty-one Fascists voted with him. The Giolittists cast against him twelve innocuous and well stage-managed votes. It is significant that one-time Premier Giolitti had the reputation...
Compulsory Cinema Religion. Signor Mussolini founded during the week, with the support of the Holy See, the Institute of Religious Art and Education. The Institute will occupy itself at once with the production of motion pictures illustrating the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. Lest these films prove unpopular, Il Duce decreed last week the obligatory showing of one such Roman Catholic film drama as a part of every motion picture program released in Italy after the new religious films are ready...
Potent U. S. financiers, from Thomas W. Lament down, journey to Italy only to return and hymn the praises of Fascism (TIME, Feb. 1). Established authors, especially such contributors to the Saturday Evening Post as Irvin S. Cobb, return to pronounce like benedictions upon Premier Mussolini and all his works. Last week, in Paris, Louis Bromifield, 30, author of three financially and artistically successful novels* recounted to newsgatherers with the alarming candor of youth impressions gleaned on a recent visit to Italy...
Cried Croat Raditch before a public gathering at Ogulin: "Premier Mussolini is an irresponsible fool! . . . The Italian people are gagged and enslaved. . . . The French are remaining calm because they know that Mussolini is a lunatic who must be humored. . . . Italy is under a worse despot today than in the time of Nero. . . . Conditions are worse than in Soviet Russia. A little group is prison warden for the nation. Each man spies upon his neighbor and nowhere is there security . . . . Mussolini will suffer the destiny to which he is doomed...