Word: fanfani
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...Deputies who fanned out before him in the high, oak-paneled chamber had Amintore Fanfani's fate in their hands. It was up to them to accept or reject him as Italy's new Premier. In the dry, precise style of an economics professor (which he once was), 46-year-old Amintore Fanfani outlined a substantial program: more government housing, another 65,000 schoolrooms, stone-clearing projects in Sardinia and reforestation in the mountain districts, cheaper loans for farmers, wage boosts for workers, better tax enforcement. These measures reflected his leanings to the liberal wing of his Christian...
From the center benches, Fanfani's colleagues of the divided Christian Democratic Party applauded, but with more politeness than ardor. The rest of the chamber sat in stony silence. Next day, when the time came for debate of the Fanfani program, there was no debate. Not a Deputy rose to discuss...
Apples on the Desk. In World War II, Fanfani escaped Mussolini's draft by fleeing to Switzerland, where (together with Italian President Luigi Einaudi) he taught Italian students in internment camps. Ambitious, aggressive and a disciplinarian (he says he believes in authority, efficiency, and the Sermon on the Mount), Fanfani after the war, took on a succession of ministries under Premier Alcide de Gasperi. As Minister of Labor, he developed the "Fanfani house" program which so far has produced more than 7,700 government-built workers' homes; he put 200,000 of Italy's many unemployed...
Once, when someone proposed Fanfani for still another ministry, De Gasperi refused. "If I keep on appointing Fanfani to various ministries." he said. "I am sure that one of these days I will open the door to my study and find Fanfani sitting at my desk...
...Giuseppe Pella's Cabinet. Fanfani was Minister of Interior, and there got firsthand experience in policing Italy's rambunctious Communists. When Pella fell out with his party, it was Fanfani who pushed for the showdown, and was ready to step in (TIME...