Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friends of the Signora Rachele Mussolini were glad to believe, last week, a pleasant story illustrative of her undoubted goodness of heart. It is told that, prior to the birth of the bambino Romano Mussolini (TIME, Oct. 10), she learned how intolerable was the lot of some 600 antiFascists then exiled upon blistering, volcanic islands off the coast of Sicily. Acutely sensible of the sufferings of others, she was moved to intercede with the Signor Benito Mussolini. Soon it became known that some at least of the 600 exiles would be released. Last week a round, generous 300 were allowed...
...least curious fact concerning the Signora Rachele Mussolini is that her very name is unmentioned in the sole authorized biography of Il Duce, a volume of 352 pages in which space is found to depict several mistresses. Thus this great lady is the ideal Italian type of completely self-effacing signora pòr bene-a phrase which cloaks her with all the matronly virtues and proclaims that, as befits Caesar's wife, she is transcendently above suspicion...
Picturesque is the story of how the tavern keeper Allessandro Mussolini-father of Benito-warned his tap-wench Rachele Agostini against his son. "Do not let yourself think of that young man," he is said to have said. "It would be better to throw yourself under a train. Married to him you will have neither happiness nor peace...
...foreword obligingly "exculpate the Jews of guilt for the death of Jesus," and put the responsibility on Roman hirelings. As a historian Mr. DcMille is both magnanimous and tactful. It is an act that should make the wallets of exhibitors swell with good feeling. And Premier Mussolini is hardly likely to protest in favor of the newly accused culprits. The B'nai Brith magazine praises the "fine sensitiveness of the leaders" in passing such an edict. Only the captious will recall the coincidence that the majority of these leaders are themselves of faintly Hebraic name and appearance. As formulated...
...Manhattan, the house of Morgan did not give out to the press a cablegram despatched, last week, from John Pierpont (Morgan to Benito Mussolini. When cabled back from Rome at press rates it read suavely...