Word: freemason
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freemason George Washington dreamed of a University of the U. S. A., at Washington. Last week the Supreme Council, Scottish Rite Masons gave $1,000,000 to George Washington University to found a school of government at the seat of government...
...Plot, it was declared, had been carefully hatched by Zaniboni and General Luigi Capello (famed anti-Fascist Freemason leader), who had motored to Rome from Parma some three days earlier. Before reaching Rome they are said to have halted near a thick pine grove in order that Zaniboni might receive last minute practice in the use of his rifle, which he fired for a long time at a target set up 100 yards distant in the woods...
Matteotti also belonged to this party. The exposure is timely also because the trial of the Matteotti assassins has become inevitable. Gen. Capello, who is jointly accused, is a fervent Freemason. The Fascists are violent against the Grand Lodge...
Shortly after the event Fascist-censored cables and telegrams declared that a hot-headed Freemason, Giovanni Benciolini had wantonly shot and killed Cavaliere Luperini, a Fascist leader, and had then been set upon by an infuriated Fascist mob, which not only beat him to death but wreaked awful vengeance upon all Freemasons who could be found...
Curiously enough, when uncensored letters were received concerning these dark doings, it was represented that the Fascist leader who had allegedly been murdered without cause, had actually begun the trouble by striking an old Freemason, Cavaliere Bandinelli, violently across the face, while trying to make him divulge the names and addresses of all the Freemasons in Florence. Benciolini, a friend of the old man, had then shot the Fascist, and the harsh reprisals which followed were alleged to have been committed by disciplined Fascist militiamen...