Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unleashed his vocal chords, calling "strikes" derisively against any Republican who may come to bat. Last week he gave his hounds of speech a preliminary run: "With Borah as its leader in foreign affairs, challenging the Administration's position with reference to the World Court, and Dawes, the Mussolini of American politics, threatening invasion and destruction to those of his political faith who dare oppose his Senatorial reform views, the poor old Republican Party is in for rough sledding and a hard time...
Some 27 months ago (TIME, Sept. 29, 1923) General Primo de Rivera, robust determined, overthrew the allegedly corrupt Government of Premier Alhucemas by "a bloodless Fascist revolution," and became de facto "The Mussolini of Spain" and de jure President of "The National Directorate,"* an office which King Alfonso hastily created...
Last week the Court of Public Prosecutions took the final step which liberated these men, all of whom are intimates of Premier Mussolini. Forth from 18 months of imprisonment came Giuseppe Marinelli, onetime Treasurer of the Fascist Party, and was at once appointed its General Inspector of Administration. He and his co-prisoners, Cesare Rossi and Filippo Filippelli, were lauded by the Fascist press as "heroes," and their release was touted as "a great victory for truth...
...antics of a bad boy of six just deprived of a new toy. Only a fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 30) Fascist deputies, shrieking like wild Indians, dragged a Communist, Signor Maffi, from the Chamber by the hair of his beard. To that arch-stickler for authority, Premier Benito Mussolini, such doings have long seemed intolerable. Last week the cables carried news of a "reform" so ingenious that its high-handedness was passed over in a gale of appreciative laughter...
Last week came tidings of that benevolent dictator, that bantam Mussolini, the diminutive yet lion-hearted President Augusto B. Leguía y Salcedo of Peru, who "tips the scales at 98 pounds of dynamite and determination...