Word: mussolini
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...Cabinet, denied even a seat in the Commons, he painted and laid bricks, traveled widely, and wrote an average of a million words a year. Later, during the dismal era when Hitler and Mussolini were rising and Britain shuttered its windows to the world, Churchill returned to the House to rum ble bitter warnings from his seat below the Tory gangway. He was unheeded, but never unheard...
...then still in a Washington, D.C., insane asylum, subject to possible trial for treason because of his wartime broadcasts for Mussolini. The Bollingen Prize, established by Financier Paul Mellon in 1945, at that time was administered by the Library of Congress, was shortly moved to the Yale Library...
...most Washingtonians, that was an unsettling prospect. The Washington Post labeled the building's style Aggressive Eclectic, "because it has a surfeit of everything." A more apt description might be Mussolini Modern. It squats, like a huge, somber, white-marbled mausoleum, on an 8.3-acre plot, 700 ft. distant from the House wing of the Capitol. Four stories high, it is H-shaped, flat-roofed, contains three-room office suites for 169 Congressmen and their staffs (the other 266 Congressmen are housed in the old New House and the old Old Buildings), as well as nine standing-committee rooms...
...when he rallied U.S. moral and monetary support for Italy's new republic; an early, outspoken anti-Fascist who, as editor of Milan's influential Corriere della Sera in the early 1920s, and later as an indefatigable agitator exiled in Paris, was so unrelenting a foe of Mussolini's that he eventually found himself near the top of Il Duce's must-kill list; in Rome...
Explaining his belief in a compulsory Gen Ed program, Finley drew parallels between the evolution of the education and government: "Hutchins at Chicago broke down the departments to build a college, just like Mussolini broke up the corporations to consolidate Italy...