Word: fellowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...themes: that he is a farmer himself who understands farm problems; that he knows how to handle Communists (keep them out in the open where they can be watched); that the Administration is bungling the U.S. into war. But mainly he tried to sell himself as a solid good fellow and no highfalutin' Easterner...
...Gasperi succeeded Sturzo as leader of Italy's Christian Democracy, ran up against Benito Mussolini. Mussolini forced De Gasperi out of the window. His party was banned and he became, like thousands of his fellow Italians, an outlaw. He was jailed twice. His health broke. In 1929, Pope Pius XI gave him a post as Vatican librarian at $80 a month. To eke out his salary, he gave language lessons, occasionally worked as ghostwriter for foreign correspondents...
...when U.S. troops caught him, Gustav Krupp was too old (now 77) and too ill to stand trial. So his son Alfred and eleven fellow Krupp directors were hauled into Nürnberg court and charged with conspiring to wage aggressive war. Last week, after four months of testimony, a U.S. tribunal acquitted them of the charge.* The tribunal did not say why, but apparently it thought that businessmen could not be blamed for carrying out orders from political leaders. That did not mean that the Krupp officials would get off scot free. They still had to face trial...
...both Monday and Tuesday evenings, Salvemini strongly protested against "the abuse which would have been made of my name if the signature had not been deleted." He also insisted he would have nothing to do with Communists and fellow travellers...
...would never have thought it possible that even Communists and fellow travellers would have recourse to such tricks as publishing a tentative draft as a final document authorized by the man who had drawn up a different final text, and then signing it with names collected under false pretenses," Salvemini insisted...