Word: mussolinian
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...creation of the C.G.E. in 1953, as a counterweight to the 6,000,000-member C.G.T.. fitted in with Perón's vague variety of Mussolinian corporate-state philosophy, but as usual his reasons were practical rather than philosophical. By setting up a business federation he expected to 1) broaden and stabilize the base of his power, and 2) boost the nation's industrial output. Said Perón, in a recent speech sounding remarkably different from the rabble-rousing Perón of yesteryear: "We may get some results if we try to persuade people...
...conference room (which Ickes sometimes used as his bedroom) and private bathroom (where Ickes used to wipe his feet happily on a bath mat emblazoned with the Republican elephant). In Ickes' enormous room, at Ickes' great, gleaming desk, there now sits a successor who cares nothing for mussolinian magnificence: Douglas McKay, 61, veteran Chevrolet dealer -"the old car peddler," he calls himself-from Salem...
...seance continued. Once it looked as though Mussolini's own ghost had returned when one Luigi Filosa, a Fascist henchman, got up to speak; Filosa was short and bald, stood squarely with his hands on his hips and stuck out his lower lip in characteristic Mussolinian truculence. From dark corners of the auditorium drifted snatches of Fascist hymns. A philosophy professor, who shouted: "Democracy is a fraud!" was arrested by the watchful secret service men. The hysterical speakers babbled on. Yelled a woman teacher: "They come, these Americans, these ignorant bushmen, to show us-the heirs of Michaelangelo...
...clandestine mimeopaper, La Parola del Soldato (The Soldier's Word), is circulated among Italian occupation troops in France in collaboration with the French underground. Its aim: "union of action of all Italians ... for an immediate separate peace and for the restitution ... of freedom and independence against the Hitlero-Mussolinian oppressor...
Word has come from the Harvard Observatory that one Eppe Loreta, a librarian of Bologna, Italy, under the Mussolinian sun, has been acclaimed world champion observer of variable stars for the third consecutive year...