Word: mussolini
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...contumelious attack. Wherever he went, from a speaking engagement in Los Angeles to a cardinal's funeral in Manhattan, he was dogged by shouts of "Murderer!" and "War Criminal!" or chants of "Hey, hey, L.B.J., how many kids did you kill today?" He was likened to Caesar, Caligula and Mussolini...
Died. Amerigo Dumini, 74, Italian Fascist gangster and organizer of the 1924 murder of a Socialist deputy that almost toppled Mussolini's young regime; in Rome. Soon after accusing Il Duce's government of corruption, Deputy Giacomo Matteotti was kidnaped and beaten to death. The killing produced such a violent public outcry that Dumini was finally arrested and convicted, but let off with a few months' sentence-which grew to 30 years when he was retried, for murder...
...helped those nations in the shadow of China to over come a "paralysis of will" and to begin working together for their mutual security and prosperity. Nonetheless, he added, many in the U.S. were searching for "the fire escape-the easy way out," just as they were "in Mussolini's time" and "in Hitler's time...
...pneumonia; in Vatican City. As the semiofficial voice of four Popes, Dalla Torre austerely spelled out the church's stand on the issues of the day, only rarely, but then effectively, airing his own views in the paper's columns. His scathing editorials denouncing Fascism so enraged Mussolini that he ordered the paper banned from Rome, but Dalla Torre continued to smuggle out copies from his Vatican sanctuary, remaining one of the few Italian voices resisting the Axis...
...double-decker buses still charged up Fifth Avenue and Danish pastry was as big as fielders' gloves; when the words "new" and "guild" and "theater" and "group" and "league" were always appearing in histrionic combinations on the drama pages; when "reasonable" men were still hoping that Hitler and Mussolini would turn out to be reasonable...