Word: gianninis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, on the 24th anniversary of Mussolini's march on Rome, Fascist banners fluttered from Roman public buildings, pamphlets glorifying Il Duce showered on the streets of Milan and Naples, nostalgic Sicilian crowds chanted Giovinezza, the Fascist hymn. And in the nationwide municipal elections Guglielmo Giannini's Uomo Qualunque (Common Man) Party registered a spectacular 70% gain over its total vote last June, ran second (behind a Communist-Socialist coalition) in Rome, third in Naples, first in Palermo...
...Giannini's Transamerica Corp., the Columbia River Packers Association, the largest salmon cannery in the Pacific Northwest (last year's sales...
...other challenge was published in Good Sense, organ of Guglielmo Giannini's L'Uomo Qualunque (Common Man) Party. It appeared (unsigned) in a box usually devoted to Signor Giannini's comments. Said Good Sense: "We would like to invite people like Vishinsky to duel in the Neapolitan way, with nothing else in hand than our most noble knife, cold iron helped only by a sure forearm and stout heart and not by whole continents of seaports, mines and factories...
Actually, it was hard to find great fault with the way President Ivey had run Citizens National. The bank had weathered the depression without Government help (as Giannini's organization had not), its earnings were regular, if unspectacular. A.P.'s only specific complaint: "Its capital funds have not been restored to the 1930 position...
...when the directors met last week, they plainly showed signs of being unnerved by the Giannini maneuverings. Unanimously they adopted a resolution to go shopping for an aggressive new executive or two. To Spring Street it looked as though old A. P. would soon be playing in the Ivey League...