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...belly with nailed boots because he had urged farm laborers to secede from the CGIL. In May 1949, Anselmo Martoni, 30, a moderate Socialist, urged the braccianti (landless peasants) of Molinella to defy a Communist strike order. He was waylaid and slugged. Red bullyboys tried vainly to browbeat his mother into signing a paper declaring her son a bastard. A month later in Rome, Martoni made an impassioned speech before fellow Socialists, helped sway them toward secession from the CGIL...
...Truth. Sol Levitas, who has been executive editor of the New Leader since 1930, is a slight, mustached man with a melancholy air and beseeching eyes, enough patience to sit for hours over a chessboard or fishing line, and enough ready wit to cajole or browbeat articles out of reluctant writers. Whenever they are so bold as to bring up the subject of money, Levitas tartly replies: "Don't expect to profit from the truth." To help pay for printing what he considers the truth, Levitas periodically wangles sizable cash contributions from sympathetic conservatives and such labor leaders...
...Cork the sympathetic Irish did what they could. Bustling, white-haired Mrs. Tom Barry cajoled bakers into giving free bread, and greengrocers into supplying fruits and vegetables. She collected old clothes, rushed an Estonian mother to a maternity ward just in time (twins), and browbeat the government into giving the refugees an unused army camp for their stay. Cork's taxi drivers even sacrificed good fares to take the penniless voyagers by the carload up to kiss the Blarney Stone...
...terms as Iowa's governor, wavy-haired Robert D. Blue seemed to do his utmost to be unpopular. Aloof and often autocratic, he browbeat his legislature, gave little heed to rising growls from the voters. In Iowa such unpolitic conduct sometimes does not matter. A Republican could always count on enough organization votes in the primary...
...German journalists who had bucked the Nazis and somehow survived. He squirms guiltily in his role of judging conqueror. How would he, as a German, have stood the test of the Nazi terror? What right has he, a noncombatant desk officer who has always doubted his own courage, to browbeat the uncourageous...