Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shrill, fussy Minister of Public Works Giovanni Battista Giuriati was last week elected President of the new 100% Fascist Chamber of Deputies (TIME, April 8). Casting about for some one to fill the vacant Ministry of Public Works, the powers-that-are came upon Signor Benito Mussolini...
Cabinet posts not held by Il Duce are: Justice, Finance, Public Instruction, Communications, National Economy. Senator Luigi Federzoni, famed "Soft Speaker of the Vatican," from whom Signor Mussolini took the Ministry of Colonies last year (TIME, Dec. 31), was last week elected President of the Senate...
North-of-Europe cartoonists have been making sport of the Italo-Papal Treaty & Concordat ever since it was signed (TIME, Feb. 18). The idea that Dictator Mussolini purposes to use the Catholic Church as a sword of conquest was cartooned lately with savage power in Amsterdam's Notenkraker (Nut Cracker), much to the satisfaction of super-Protestant Netherlanders (see cut). Other cartoonists have drawn Pope Pius XI in a Fascist black shirt and Mussolini with the Papal Tiara perched on his rather bald head. The caricatured insinuation is always that His Holiness and His Excellency are reprehensibly in cahoots...
...unnaturally Japanese editors thought their readers would be interested last week in hearing about Donna Rachele Mussolini, whose condition was announced almost simultaneously with that of the Empress. Potent mother of three sons and a daughter, Donna Mussolini last week donned an apron and sturdily dished out a hot luncheon to 70 workmen on her husband's "model farm" at Forli in the north of Italy. Males who find themselves in the south of Italy this summer should avoid being jeered at or reviled for failure to observe an old Sicilian custom...
...matter of fact, I do not believe Mussolini's syndicalism is at all popular. It was never overjoyously welcomed by the working men; but at first the employers hailed it as favorable to them. Now, however, they also are beginning to feel its sternness. Probably it is more tolerated than approved today. And especially it is endured because the people believe it will help make Italy great and able to assert herself. Here is the difference between the nationalism of Mussolini and that of Matzini. The latter preached for a united Italy, that she might contribute towards Europe. But when...