Word: signore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene just described was recently cartooned for Punch, British weekly, to visualize the recent successes of Signor Mussolini in stamping out large numbers of the secret bandit gangs or "Mafia" in Sicily (TIME, Oct. 24, Jan. 23). Punch put into the mouth of its nearly strangled brigand a gasp: "If you destroy our secret societies you kill romance." To this the burly-but-impeccable victor, Signor Mussolini, replies: "Fascismo is all the romance Italy needs!" Last week the real Signor Mussolini lived up to his cartooned likeness by ordering that suppression of the criminal class in Sardinia shall at once...
Devotees of the present Sardinia wished, last week, that Signor Mussolini would not slate it for tidying up until he has dealt with a far more criminal region. Calabria, the province which forms the toe of boot-shaped Italy...
...passed, the measure would abrogate democratic suffrage in Italy, and create a new legislative Chamber almost solely controlled by appointive powers vested in Signor Mussolini. He would then indeed have no "equals" even in the legal sense. Well, who was opposed...
...unique ticket will contain only candidates who have been approved by the Fascist Grand Council, a body whose members are appointed by Signor Mussolini...
...Gambling with the paraphernalia of roulette and baccarat was allowed to be resumed in Italy, last week, but at only one resort, San Remo, which is only 20 miles east of Monte Carlo on the Riviera. When Senator Corrado Ricci interpellated Signor Mussolini, last week, as to why San Remo alone was favored, the Dictator rapped...