Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private capital, say the New Dealers, will stand to benefit if behind the whole Housing push is put another force, which Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold announced last fortnight, amplified last week. This force is to be "the greatest trust-busting drive ever attempted." Simultaneously on a score of fronts, the Department of Justice will presently crack down on all manner of building-restrainers...
...announcing this drive, Mr. Arnold devoted only a short, gentle paragraph to labor unions. But last week, with the A. F. of L.'s building trades strikes on WPA full blown throughout the land, Attorney General Murphy declared: "We will expose racketeering and drive it to cover by prosecution...
Infected by the general excitement, U. S. foreign correspondents became fairly spooky themselves. "There is fairly reliable talk," cabled the Chicago Daily New's Edgar Ansel Mowrer at 7? a word, "of check stubs being found signed by a certain German. There is much talk of a certain French Deputy. Various members of the always peculiar 'French-German Committee,' among whose members could generally be found champions of giving Führer Adolf Hitler a free hand in Eastern Europe-naturally only by coincidence-have found sleep more difficult, it is said...
...paper La Lotta di Classe (The Class Fight), he became editor of Avanti!, Italy's leading Socialist journal. Edda was scarcely able to walk when Papa Benito, loudly opposing the "imperialist" Italian-Turkish War over Libya, spent six months in jail for "resisting" public authorities, and general anti-war violence. Soon afterward he founded Il Popolo d'ltalia, at Milan, still the Mussolini family paper, and changed his anti-war tune to an aggressive demand that Italy join the Allies against Germany and Austria-Hungary. He went to the front in 1916 and was soon severely wounded...
Soon after their marriage Count Ciano & wife were packed off to China, where he was first Consul General at Shanghai, then Minister to China. Recalled to Italy in 1933, he became Under Secretary of State, then Minister for Press & Propaganda, and it began to appear that Edda, the apple of Il Duce's eye, could get for Husband Galeazzo just about any job she wished...