Giani was made the School's first Director, and the School's first President was Vito Mussolini, Benito Mussolini's nephew.
In 1939, during a ceremony presided over by Achille Starace, Secretary of the National Fascist Party, the official headquarters moved to the offices that housed Mussolini's newspaper Il Popolo d'Italia during its infancy, called "il Covo" (the Cave).