Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cars. So shrewdly did he choose that by 1927, when I.F.I, was formed to hold Fiat's investments (and solidify his control), he owned a diversified slice of the Italian economy. For such -accomplishments and for Agnelli's financial help in the March on Rome, an admiring Mussolini made him a lifetime Senator. He also cooperated by placing staggering duties on imported cars...
...Right, only a minor brother in 1948, won more than 2,000,000 votes from De Gasperi's center. With their appeal for a return to the tawdry glories of Mussolini, the neo-Fascists won 29 Chamber seats. Biggest gainers were the Monarchists, led by Naples' wealthy, shipowning Mayor Achille Lauro, whose big promises and free handouts of spaghetti and clothes won 7% of the votes and 40 seats...
...side of his old friends the Germans, who refused him patent rights to produce 88-mm. shells for guns supplied to Greece by the Germans. Athanassiades went ahead and made the 88-mm. shells anyway-and thus gave the Greek army a stockpile of ammunition with which to chase Mussolini's forces back into Albania. "They could do it," says Bodo, "only because...
Riots & Parades. In an Italy tossed between Marxist riots and Blackshirt parades, Don Luigi and De Gasperi tried desperately to head off Fascism by proposing a coalition with the Socialists, but their efforts failed. After Mussolini took over, Sturzo fled into exile in 1924, and De Gasperi became leader of the party...
...quickly got on Mussolini's black list-he dared to condemn the Fascist murder of Socialist Giacomo Matteotti and to ask the King to dismiss // Duce...