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"Il Duce" is a title, cognate with Duke or Doge, translated as (The) Leader,
analogous to "Der Fuehrer." You don't combine it with Mussolini,
you substitute it for the name, just as with Hitler.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duce
I guess the column is still there on the lake shore, but I have never
noticed it. We certainly still have the little street called Balbo.
As often as not people call it Balboa, so don't feel bad :-)
At 12:49 PM 6/19/2011, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>found an old bronze 5" air medal from the 30"s in the collapsed crypt of the old church in Mobile
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>need to decipher the following
>(I got as far as Mussolini / and his air minister Balboa / on back of bronze )
>but what did "Duce "mean ? was it a preface such as "Leader" ? or somethig more sinister like dictator
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>the date is 1933; in roman numerals then follows
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>Crociera aerea del Decennale
>Roma New York Chicago
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>It has something to do with the Chicago Worlds fair Century of Progress
>Mussolini Duce or Duce Mussolini ( which is correct?)
>anyway the Duce gave a Fascist stone ( masonry ?) column in honor of the (italian americans ) in Chicago and the said column is supposed to be still there ...that's as far as I got
>.anybody know anything about what the Italian means and where the column might be ? ///Py
Martin C. Tangora
University of Illinois at Chicago
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