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...most trusty and telling weapon has been the CGIL (Confederazione Generate Italiana del Lavoro). From 1944 to 1948 it operated almost as a monopolistic, aggressive state within the state, claiming 6,500,000 members and another 5,000,000 affiliates, using the general strike as a political bludgeon against the government. CGIL's boss was Communist Bigwig Giuseppe di Vittorio, who ran the show with a strong arm and a jealous eye for any non-Communist challenge to his power...
Concerning your Feb. 6 article, "The Sisters of Abigail Adams," Sister Bellamy's cheesecake is undoubtedly a potent example of the omnipotent female bludgeon of sex ; but for a more apt manifestation of "the most invincible feminine weapon of all," TIME should turn to the Ogden Nash and S. J. Perelman version of Venus, who -. . . found herself a goddess...
Target for the Week. In a week of Red tantrums after the verdict, Judge Medina became the target for every type of Communist attack and abuse. Paul Robeson vowed that he would get Medina impeached. The Soviet newspaper Pravda carried a cartoon of Uncle Sam swinging a bludgeon labeled "Medina...
...convict seiezed, N. H., with nearly $4,000 in small bills confessed last night to the three-day-old bludgeon slaying of a former employer in Cambridge, Mass., and agreed to return to Massachusetts...
...they were. Justice was also debonair and deft, so that even Party-Liner Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast, writing in the Communist Daily Worker, acknowledged Medina's "old world charm," and recognized that "like many other good performers, he knows the understress is of more value than the bludgeon ... It is quite apparent, even through the charm, that he does not like the Communists, who go in not only for bickering, but for much more overt forms of opposition...