Word: mussolini
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...selected Whitmore's lines from Rogers' own amazing variety of comments and stories. We get a good taste of his range: Whitmore talks of doctors, war, newspapers, friends, politicians. Politicians most of all. Rogers spoke directly about the people and issues of his day, from World War I to Mussolini to the Dust Bowl. Many of his jokes still hit home. When Whitmore says, "You all know the best place for a political convention--Chicago, of course," Rogers' words are not just an echo from 1920. Even more apt are his statements on American gunboat diplomacy...
...Parliament for more than four decades; of fibrosis of the lung; in Hertfordshire, England. Salisbury belonged to a family of politicians whose influence dated back 400 years to Elizabethan times. A man of rigid principle, he resigned from government in 1938 to protest his party's appeasement of Mussolini. He was later called back to office by Winston Churchill, became leader of the House of Lords, and in 1957 played a pivotal role in the selection of, Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister...
...comparison of left and right wing Futurism. Both shared an impatience with the world that led them to activist politics, and both became irrelevant to the political movements that had subsumed them. Yet their senses of the present and its tasks were poles apart. I include a drawing of Mussolini by Mayakovsky with his poetic notation...
...draw Mussolini for those who've not seen...
Point for point, line for line--this is Mussolini...