Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate. No sooner was the U. S.-Italian settlement taken up in the Senate than Democratic Floor Leader Robinson launched a fierce attack upon both the bill itself and Premier Mussolini. There was every indication that the Democrats intend if possible to embarras the Administration by stirring up hostile opinion on both sides of the ocean...
...salient note of Professor W. Y. Elliott's discussion of Fascism at the Liberal Club last night was one of doubt as to the permanence of the present Fascist regime. Although he did not think that Mussolini's government would produce any lasting effects, he admitted that Fascism was a very real force in the political situation of the present. Not only a force, but, controlled by the admittedly imperialistic aspirations of Mussolini, a direct menace...
...there were dozens in the court. Other admiring females had presented them with especially woven Fascist black shirts. Their carefully knotted black ties and cool indifferent bearing suggested that no undue alarm surged in the breasts of these alleged murderers of Giacomo Matteotti, millionaire, Socialist, irreconcilable foe of Benito Mussolini (TIME, June...
...Matteotti murder (June 10, 1924), as everyone knows, seriously embarrassed the Fascist Party, resulted in the arrest of 25 Fascists, and gave rise to rumors which still brand Premier Mussolini with the suspicion of having instigated the assassination. One by one 20 of the more prominent arrested persons have been released by the public prosecutor or set free under the last general amnesty. Recently the wife of Matteotti withdrew from all participation in the prosecution which her attorneys characterized as "judicially and morally nil." Last week there began the trial of five men who are regarded widely as mere scapegoats...
Defense attorney Farinacci was not slow to pour out scathing words upon such witnesses. The trial continued. Cynics recalled a petulant remark made by Mussolini, just after the murder was committed and before the body was discovered...