Word: di
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communist Labor Boss Giuseppe di Vittorio publicly admitted his distress that Italian Reds had been obliged to attack the Marshall Plan. He said he would ask the Communist-dominated World Federation of Trade Unions to let workers in each country decide for themselves what stand to take on U.S. aid. "When someone wants to help you," he said, "it is ridiculous to slap him in the face...
Another Communist servant who symbolized Pope Palmiro's strength even better was Giuseppe di Vittorio, brassknuckled labor leader, who controls most of Italy's labor unions; through them he can cripple Italy's entire industry. This week, as a small sample of what he could do, he led a one-hour nationwide general strike. If the Communists decide to use strikes and sabotage rather than open violence, Di Vittorio would...
...anti-Communist Sicily, many Reds, fellow travelers and some innocent labor leaders had been ambushed and killed. Last month, an obscure village labor organizer called Placido Rizzotto disappeared. Last week, Communist Labor Boss Di Vittorio chose to make a national issue of Rizzotto, threatened a general strike unless he turned up by this week...
...Hour. Next day, across the Tiber, the white-clad Pope stood on a balcony beneath the brilliant spring sun. Below him lay the immense Piazza di San Pietro and, in its encircling colonnades, a multitude of more than 350,000 people, who overflowed into the adjoining streets and lined the nearby roofs. Overhead swooped two planes, scattering Christian Democrat leaflets urging the listeners to vote; the tolling of St. Peter's eight-foot bell and the music of the Vatican's band stirred the throng, whose banners read "Christ or Death." With raised hands, the Pope cried: "This...
...full 24 hours gold-spectacled merchants, sheep-faced bumpkins from the farmyards, wispy old ladies and hot-eyed, big-bosomed Neapolitan beauties pushed and stampeded through the door of Naples' cathedral, where the Madonna di Pompeii had been raised on an altar surrounded by the reddest roses...