Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than princely might are the heels of Signer Benito Mussolini, and last February they left a depression upon numerous clods as he plowed and sowed personally a small field of wheat on his farm near Forli, in the foothills of the Apennines. The iron features of Il Duce seemed those of a stern husbandman as he guided his old-fashioned plow drawn by two white oxen past purring cinema cameras; but to relieve and humanize the drama little Bruno, his younger son, straddled one of the oxen. Not until last week, however, did newsgatherers learn the impressive details...
Popular among sporting Europeans is the Bugatti, a smart, small, high-powered automobile capable of 90 miles per hour without threatening to disintegrate or fly off the road. Ettore Bugatti, an Italian, manufactures this swift vehicle in Alsace, France. Last week, after a long conference with Premier Mussolini about building Bugatti automobiles in an Italian factory, Signer Bugatti revealed that he is also making a Bugatti boat-an all-steel "cigar," 82 ft. long, 10 ft. in diameter, which he said will be able to cross the Atlantic in two days. It is designed to travel half-submerged. Tubes...
Married. Miserosetta Macini, daughter of the only sister of Premier Benito Mussolini;* to Pier Giovanni Ricci, Fascist officer; in Rome. He (Benito Mussolini) acted as witness, gave her a ruby bracelet...
Signor Benito Mussolini resides in bachelor estate at the sumptuous Villa Torlonia, Rome, Donna Rachele Mussolini and their small sons, Bruno and Vittorio, spend the winter at an apartment in Milan, and the summer at a little villa near Forli in the Umbrian mountains. Edda Mussolini, their daughter, attends boarding school in Florence. Thus the Mussolinis dwell apart, except on holidays such as Christmas...
...Milan last week the Fascist censor passed a despatch saying that a fourth child will be born to Donna Mussolini in late September, will be named "Romano" if a boy, "Romana" if a girl...