Word: fascistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Umberto Giordano, 81, Italian composer who scored a one-shot success at 28 with his melodramatic opera of the French Revolution, Andrea Chenier; of a heart ailment; in Milan, Italy. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Fascist revolution, in 1932, Mussolini ordered him to compose a special tune...
Gordon spoke of the recent attack made on HYD member George Stocking, and declared: "We shall begin that fight by mobilizing University-wide protests against the fascist-like beating of George Stocking...
...wived the new group, Representative Samuel Dickstein of New York, was engaged in unfair persecution of the Bund. Indeed, Dickstein had been attacking the Bund furiously. It was his idea that a small body of Representatives peering into "un-American activities" would scorch and harry Nazi and Fascist propagandists in the United States, and if Dickstein had been appointed chairman, the American public would doubtless have been displayed of one of the wildest, weirdest extravagant side shows since the Tennessee monkey-trial...
...United States was afraid that Spain would be consumed by Civil War if Franco left the scene. With this tacit carte blanche, Franco launched a purge, the most ferocious since 1939, under the guise of an anti-communist crusade. He passed a succession law turning Spain into a fascist monarchy and made it a capital crime to be suspected of opposition to the government...
...visit to Germany to quiz a German scientist (anti-Nazi) on German progress in developing the rocket bomb. Thereafter the episodes are what might be expected: the high moment of almost every Lanny Budd novel is an escape from the Gestapo, or the rescue of someone from a Fascist torture chamber...