Word: mussolinian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...