Word: signoralli
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...laurel wreath and a bouquet of roses were placed by a Fascist usher on the desk of Signor Mussolini as the Italian Chamber assembled last week in extraordinary session. The galleries and boxes twittered and sparkled with the elect of Rome, Fascist patricians who had come to cheer Il Duce as he put through the Chamber his Defense Decrees (TIME, Nov. 15) punishing with death attempts upon his life, and virtually abrogating civil liberty in Italy...
...been heard to tick. . . . Grasping the laurel with one hand and the roses with the other, Il Duce sat down at his desk, stared straight before him, his gaze piercing and immovable. . . . When Il Duce's dramatic silence had begun to seem permanent, the President of the Chamber, Signor Casertano, at length plucked up courage to open the session, not with a formal speech but by shouting: "Long live Mussolini today! Long live Mussolini always...
...bill having been introduced there was no debate. The judicial committee retired to an anteroom and inspected the bill for 45 minutes. While they were gone Signor Mussolini relaxed, chatted with his Ministers, smiled and nodded as the Deputies and gallery roared plaudits. When the Committee returned and reported favorably on the bill Premier Mussolini stalked to the ballot box. "FOR FASCISM!" he cried, and cast his vote. Three hundred and forty-one Fascists voted with him. The Giolittists cast against him twelve innocuous and well stage-managed votes. It is significant that one-time Premier Giolitti had the reputation...
Compulsory Cinema Religion. Signor Mussolini founded during the week, with the support of the Holy See, the Institute of Religious Art and Education. The Institute will occupy itself at once with the production of motion pictures illustrating the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. Lest these films prove unpopular, Il Duce decreed last week the obligatory showing of one such Roman Catholic film drama as a part of every motion picture program released in Italy after the new religious films are ready...
...Conscious that he was about to sound thus the tuba of Empire, Signor Mussolini sought to demonstrate, earlier in the week, that at least he has no designs upon crag-defended Switzerland. Said he to a Swiss newsgatherer: "The Swiss will never have occasion to fear Italy, nor any blow from here, nor any wicked enterprise. I love Switzerland. I have for Switzerland a preference which I have for no other country outside of my own. It is one of my sentimental frailties...