Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Means Committee because he was not elected to the 67th Congress (1921-23). Mr. Rainey has not liked the first two important measures which came out of the Ways and Means Committee this yearOPEN_P]They produced severally a number of arguments. Mr. Rainey denounced the government of Mussolini, calling it cruel, tyrannical; declared that the U.S. had no business to make an agreement with such a government. It was said that Mussolini would soon be overthrown and that therefore it was folly to make an agreement with him. Mr. Hull favored waiting until Italy had made economic recovery...
...Chamber reassembled following the Christmas recess, a little knot of deputies, extremely ill at ease, was observed among the superconfident Fascists who make up Premier Mussolini's overwhelming majority...
Last week the Aventines apparently thought that the time had come again to participate in the debates of the Chamber, albeit the immense Fascist majority would continue triumphant on every issue. To Mussolini it seemed that this might cause a good deal of wasted breath. Mussolini is frugal. He ascended the tribune...
...great Cardinal Richelieu, for example, practically forced Corneille and the famed clique of notables who frequented informally the house of Valentin Courart to allow themselves to be "incorporated" into L'Académie française, for the greater glory of "Cardinal, King, and Country." Last week Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, rapped out a few terse commands to his Cabinet, and lo, L'Accademia Italiana sprang into being...
...Soldier-patriot-poet-playwright d'Annunzio; Composer Toscanini (director of La, Scala, Milan, "The Foremost Opera House of Europe"); Conductor Mascagni (composer of the score for Cavalleria Rusticana); Philosopher-satirist-playwright Pirandello (author of Six Characters in Search of an Author, a play hailed with acclaim on Broadway); Statesman Mussolini and as many Fascist statesmen as are able to get in under the limit of 60 Immortales...