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The Rev. Mary Kate Rejouis, Rector

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The Anderson Files

In the final week of the 1928 election, Andrew Mellon gave a radio address to promote Herbert Hoover. He compared Democrats to the new regime in Russia. But in Italy, he said, “the Bolshevik menace was met and vanquished.” Benito Mussolini had not only saved “Italy from any possible danger of economic and social collapse,” but had “improved the well-being of the people of the country.” The Italian government “operated in accordance with established economic laws.”

Many prominent American rightwingers like Mellon were enthusiastic supporters of Mussolini and his regime with the new name of “fascist.”

In 2008, a global financial debacle occurred and Federal Reserve chair

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