Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third time in a twelvemonth Death darted a sable claw last week at Benito Mussolini. He had just returned to Rome from attending military maneuvers in Umbria with King Vittorio Emanuele. Having spent the night at his sumptuous suburban residence, a villa lent by Count Torlonia, Signor Mussolini breakfasted frugally, set off for his office...
...Signor Mussolini's limousine swept through the city gate, Signor Lucetti hurled a hand grenade. Well aimed, it struck the glass behind which sat Il Duce. The glass splintered, tinkled, held just sufficiently so that the bomb glanced to the roadway, exploded, hurtled stones and splinters which wounded eight bystanders and deeply scarred the back of the Premier's limousine, by then 30 feet away...
Both Calm. Dictator Mussolini and his would-be assassin both retained a glacial calm. The Premier sat quietly in his car and received an ovation with immobile features while his chauffeur changed a tire punctured by a splinter from the bomb...
...twelve Greek Aegean islands seized by Italy during the Italo-Turkish war of 1912, there came last week news of an able ecclesiastical strategem. Just before Dictator Pangalos was overthrown the local Greek Archbishop was commanded by the Italian authorities to offer prayers for Dictator Mussolini. He, wily, offered a simultaneous prayer for Dictators Mussolini and Pangalos, humored the pan-Greek leanings of his congregation. Arrested by the irate Italian police for praying for General Pangalos, he said: "You know that General Pangalos and Dictator Mussolini are great friends. They are both Dictators. They have both recently escaped from...
...Mussolini is planning great reforms in the Italian opera houses [TIME, Sept. 6]. The Ministry of Culture in Berlin has created a special music department in which Dr. Leo Kestenberg is doing important work. "I have heard from leading artists in Central Europe that there is talk of an organized effort to prevent the exodus of the best artists...