Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poor in Italy have rations equivalent to the diet enjoyed in 1937 at the peak of Mussolini's prosperity era. . . . [Italy] is a veritable land of plenty, while in all three countries black-market restaurants supplied steaks, eggs, fruits and other delicacies at prices equivalent to those of restaurants in New York...
...When the Met's new manager, Edward Johnson, was approved in 1935, he did not renew De Luca's high-salaried contract. Throughout the war, De Luca was in Italy. His 30-room villa was untouched by bombs which flattened the house of his neighbor, Virginio Gayda, Mussolini's press aide. De Luca said: "For five years I was playing cards. I refused to sing because I was not in a good humor...
...villain, in the Hollywood sense of the word-even the fascist is an understandable human being. Nowhere have the Swiss fallen into the trap of personifying evil in well-known typed characters: the snivelling, mustached Italian informer, the hard-bitten, blond German storm trooper, or the bloated soap-box Mussolini. Instead, they have kept evil as a massive force--the German Army or War--against which everyone in the film is pitted; the result is a refreshing relief from the run-of-the-mill war movie technique...
...final plunge, he pleaded, Spain was too poor and unprepared. Germany must first send more wheat to feed the hungry Spaniards and guns to reduce Gibraltar. When the Axis crashed, he cleared from his desk in El Prado the autographed portraits of Hitler and Mussolini. He orated: "Falangism is not fascism . . . [but] a special mode of life...
...also was billed 5.5 billion lire by Mussolini. He never got around to paying this debt to a creditor going out of business...