Word: quack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When a man gets a serious illness, he doesn't call in a quack. He puts his faith in the old family physician. . . . The country is facing a crisis...
...played down by explicit order of Dictator Benito Mussolini. He wages a ceaseless campaign to keep the press clean, constructive and, of course, subservient. Every Fascist also knows that the only thing which keeps the Pope off the front page in Italy and puts him among the quack nostrum and miscellaneous columns is a recent, quasi-secret order from Il Duce. Moreover, of all recent papal utterances, the encyclical on Education was most explicitly the sort of thing Il Duce will not countenance. In effect the Supreme Pontiff laid down the rule that the three agencies which ought...