Word: augusto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harsh and impossible to meet; failure of UNRRA shipments because of U.S. strikes; resentment at the cutting of Italian forests by Allied occupation authorities. All of these contributed to Italian disillusionment with democracy and to the growth of an underground neo-Fascist organization which, rumor says, is headed by Augusto Turati, former Fascist party secretary...
...Augusto Francale, an amiable, middle-aged bachelor practicing law in Monte Calvario-a slum known in Naples as "the natural breeding place of evil"-recently organized a league to write a divorce law for the new Republic. Similar attempts made earlier in the century had come to naught in a 97% Catholic country.* Last week Signor Francale's ideas were under attack in sermons, editorials, posters and street demonstrations. The Christian Family Defense Front sponsored such slogans as: "Beware of saboteurs of the home and family-down with divorce!" which appeared on Italian walls. The church, however...
...finespun theory making the rounds of Buenos Aires last week was that the Monet-snatcher had no intention of trying to dispose of the picture-he was just settling an old score with the National Museum's Director Augusto da Rocha. A tightfisted administrator (he slashed the museum's staff) and no patron of the local art mart, politically rightist da Rocha has long been at odds with most Argentine artists, who are largely left-of-liberal. The expertly executed theft might prove embarrassing enough to cost...
...personality won over U.S. Minister Matthew Elting Hanna. His graceful dancing entranced Mrs. Hanna. The Americans pushed Tacho's fortunes, were gratified when President Moncada put him at the head of the National Guard. In good time, Tacho used the National Guard to liquidate his most formidable rival: Augusto Sandino, the pint-sized, ferocious patriot whose ragged guerrillas never yielded to the U.S. Marines. In 1936, Tacho took the Presidency for himself in a phony election, won immediate U.S. recognition...
...Alfredo Pacheco, chief of the Air Force, who once studied flying in the U.S. Twenty-nine-year-old Rafael Otazo, vehement against nearly everything, replaced Minister of Agriculture Carlos Montenegro, who has much the same reputation. Nervous, nationalistic Walter Guevara became Secretary General of the Government in place of Augusto Cespedes, moving spirit of the newspaper La Calle, once blacklisted...