Word: franceschini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dominion press contributed to waning Canadian complacency. It played small such awkward items as that one Leonard Franceschini, an Italian naturalized a Canadian but considered Fascist, has been one of the Dominion's most successful war-order getters. As the ubiquitous president of the Dufferin Paving & Crushed Stone, Ltd., Franceschini last January got a $3,500,000 Government order to build mosquito boats and in February a $2,000.000 order to turn out shell casings. Three days after Italy entered the war Franceschini was arrested, interned. Government custodians are now trying to run the plants this suspect fifth columnist...