Word: francoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subject and story, Shoeshine is deceptively modest. It traces the gradual destruction of two boys of the Roman streets, twelve-year-old Giuseppe (Rinaldo Smordoni) and his close friend, 14-year-old Pasquale (Franco Interlenghi). They are attractive and resourceful children, at first appearance, living the anarchic, hand-to-mouth life of most of Italy during the chaotic period between the Italian and German surrenders. Then they become front men for Giuseppe's older brother, in a small-time black market deal. They are caught and locked up for questioning. If they had informed on their elders promptly, they...
...commander of the rebels, Colonel Rafael Franco, onetime Provisional President of Paraguay, did not stop to investigate the source of Morinigo's new arms. He fled by seaplane last week to Argentina. His two gunboats, the Paraguay and Humaitd, soon followed. Six months of civil war were sputtering to a close...
...Trujillo scotched the plot and then, in the style of Spain's Dictator Franco, magnified the Communist role beyond all reality? Had the revolutionaries, knocked off balance by Ortega's premature publicity, dropped their plan, or just deferred it? Last week the U.S. press front-paged reports that seven fighter planes bought from U.S. Army surplus had taken off from a Florida airfield, heading south. Trujillo's apprehensive plane patrols still scanned offshore waters and soldiers still manned the Dominican beaches...
...Franco Mele, one of Rome's leading night club pianists, was struck to the core by the persuasive lilt of Burrier's song, and when $35 and a carton of American cigarettes was added to the call of the muse, he made a 9 piece arrangement of "Lost Without...
...could go on, but the point is made. Americanism has reached a pretty low point when it must be defended by this friend of fascists, seditionists, and Hitler, Japanese, and Franco agents. And the press of Boston has reached a pretty low point when it headlines such people's insane accusations. I have my differences with Henry Wallace, but I will cheerfully forget them whenever such slimy characters as Mr. Steele creep out of the woodwork and start screaming "un-American," at one of the finest Americans of the present day. Allen H. Barton Chairman, HLU Summer Exec Leverett...