Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four cases were, of course, appealed. Harry Ford Sinclair, looking like a tired Mussolini, had plenty of money left to go on arguing that any man with money enough is as fully entitled to shadow juries as is the U. S. Government. To support this contention, Sinclair's lawyers might even cite certain earlier activities of William J. Burns, when he was Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation under the defamed Daugherty regime. Another argument which, though it failed to impress Justice Siddons, the Sinclair lawyers may try out on the U. S. Supreme Court, is this...
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...scene just described was recently cartooned for Punch, British weekly, to visualize the recent successes of Signor Mussolini in stamping out large numbers of the secret bandit gangs or "Mafia" in Sicily (TIME, Oct. 24, Jan. 23). Punch put into the mouth of its nearly strangled brigand a gasp: "If you destroy our secret societies you kill romance." To this the burly-but-impeccable victor, Signor Mussolini, replies: "Fascismo is all the romance Italy needs!" Last week the real Signor Mussolini lived up to his cartooned likeness by ordering that suppression of the criminal class in Sardinia shall at once...
Devotees of the present Sardinia wished, last week, that Signor Mussolini would not slate it for tidying up until he has dealt with a far more criminal region. Calabria, the province which forms the toe of boot-shaped Italy...
...passed, the measure would abrogate democratic suffrage in Italy, and create a new legislative Chamber almost solely controlled by appointive powers vested in Signor Mussolini. He would then indeed have no "equals" even in the legal sense. Well, who was opposed...