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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1922 at least seven assassins have tried to kill Dictator Benito Mussolini. Last week 38-year-old Bruno Simoni, former inmate of a Rome insane asylum, shot and wounded a Fascist militiaman guarding the Dictator's Villa Torlonia on Rome's Via Nomentana. Said press reports from Rome: The man was waiting for a chance at Premier Mussolini. Said an official Italian communique: It was the act of a madman who simply happened to be in the vicinity of the Premier's house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: 8th Try? | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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