Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Benito Mussolini, all-powerful, continues his triumphant reforms in devastating succession...
...Council of Ministers appointed by Mussolini is sitting to arrange the details of the transfer of the Italian State Railways to private investors. A lease of the railroads is to be granted to private companies for long periods and they will be permitted to take all the profits up to 7 per cent, anything above that to go to the State. Absolute freedom in administering the railways will be given to the companies...
...proposed new American immigration law, the effect of which would be to reduce Italian immigration into the United States from 42,000 to about 6,000 is causing much anxiety. With Italy's population multiplying and no outlet for it, it can be no long time before Mussolini must meet the problem...
Prince Gelasio Caetani, Mussolini's ambassador at Washington, plans an April tour of the United States. In his youth he was a practicing mining engineer in several Western states, where he has many friends...
...means to its end which would surely be twice as effective. The Fascisti, having doctored Italy's physical ills, have turned their attentions to its morals, and have formed an organization to attack indecent literature by the same forceful methods used in governmental matters. With ecclesiastical enthusiasm--for Mussolini was a monk--they are going straight to the root of the evil, the authors. What is more, by intimidating also the critics who encourage those writers, the organization is destroying creator and sponsor as well...