Word: covelli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Portugal. Gruff, heavy-spending Achille Lauro, multimillionaire owner of a huge merchant shipping fleet, staunch friend of the late Benito Mussolini and now the popular mayor of Naples, was the party's nominal head and principal bankroller (about $3,000,000 in contributions). Ex-Professor (of law) Alfredo Covelli, an expert parliamentarian and a good organizer, was secretary-general and real leader of the Monarchists...
...past year Lauro, whose shipping business puts him in intimate contact with many government officials, has favored lending the Monarchists' 39 parliamentary votes to the Christian Democrats on crucial issues, to prevent a collapse that might open the door to the Red Socialists and Communists. Covelli preferred to hold back and gamble that the Christian Democrats would be forced to solicit Monarchist support-for a heavy political price...
...differed also over which was the real head of the party. When the Italian Senate recently ruled that Lauro could not keep both his Senate seat and the mayor's job in Naples, Lauro angrily blamed Covelli for not helping him. Recent municipal elections have shown a shrinkage of Monarchist appeal at the polls. On top of that, Covelli, against Lauro's wishes, suddenly went back on a Monarchist promise to support EDC. At that point, the man for whom the Monarchists presumably exist-49-year-old ex-King Umberto-sent a message from exile in Portugal which...