Word: avanti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the Socialist Avanti: "We want to hurry up and strengthen the vast movement of union among the working classes and to isolate through counteraction the Fascist minority and reactionary forces behind the scenes...
...injustice. They declared (with some reason) that the terms had been drafted at Casablanca, when no one foresaw Italy's quick collapse. They wanted Italy to have the full status of a willing cobelligerent and an ally against the Germans. Loudest of the outcries came from the Socialist Avanti's Editor Pietro Nenni. Wrote he: "We in Italy are finding how superficial, summary and empirical are Allied ideas of Europe's problems...
...Premier of Italy, 71-year-old Ivanoe Bonomi, emerged literally out of the underground. In 1912, the Socialist Party expelled the managing editor of its newspaper, Avanti! ("Forward!"), the former school teacher and lawyer Ivanoe Bonomi. His successor : Benito Mussolini. In 1922, mild-mannered, politically independent Bonomi lost the job of Premier which he had held for eight stormy months. His successor: Mussolini. In obscurity during the era of Fascism Triumphant, Avvocato Bonomi eked out a living by ghosting routine briefs for young lawyers whose principal juristic equipment was a Black Shirt. Enter the Northerners. Last week, to the Grand...
...poor in his early youth and never forgot it. From his part-time blacksmith father he learned atheism and anarchy. From his schoolteacher mother he learned enough culture to become, first a grade-school teacher, then a journalist. He sold out the policy of his first important newspaper (Avanti), official organ of the Italian Socialist Party, for a reported price of $8,000 a month...