Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woman! Fancy, a woman!" Such was the first, involuntary exclamation of Signer Benito Mussolini, when an old, white-haired Irishwoman attempted to assassinate him (TIME, April 19, 1926), as he strode out from addressing the International Congress of Surgeons, in Rome...
...July 29, Signor Benito Mussolini will be 44; but last week the Associated Press reported that Il Duce, at two score and three, already manifests a species of partiality usually characteristic of older men, as follows...
...Whereas bankers, statesmen and other personages often fail of audiences [with Mussolini] . . . young girl visitors from the United States and England are almost certain to be ushered quickly to the Duce's presence...
...Regent's Palace, on Monte Titano, just above the Borgo, the two Capitani Reggenti (Regents) and the 60 Grand Councilors of San Marino were listening with anxious faces to proposals dictated by Signor Benito Mussolini. He came and saw San Marino (TIME, Aug. 30), and now, it seemed, he would deign to conquer this land of 38 square miles and but 12,027 souls. Armed conquest would, in the circumstances, be absurd; but Signer Mussolini's agents proposed last week the building of a railway which would lead just as surely to the conquest of San Marino?by Italian immigrants...
That students of comparative government saw absolute monarchy operating in Siam, paternalism in the Arabian desert, Fascism in Italy (where Mussolini greeted them wearing steel mail under his frock coat...