Word: guinta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago detectives readily identified the three corpses as what remained of John Scalise, Albert Anselmi and Joseph Guinta, gangsters all. Scalise and Anselmi were professional assassins, members of the modest remainder of Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone's once-invincible "mob." They had wriggled through three murder trials to freedom. For the mowing down of seven members of the George ("Bugs") Moran gang on St. Valentine's Day (TIME, Feb. 25), Scalise had been indicted, had obtained temporary freedom the fortnight prior on $50,000 bail...
...Trieste was expressing its devotion to its flag, King and people, Communists presented themselves fully armed before the Fascisti barracks. Five unarmed Fascisti routed them; but in their flight they came upon a Fascist washing himself in a fountain. They " killed him like a dog." " The next morning," continued Guinta, " your Communist newspaper, Il Lavoratore, dared to approve this revolting action as if it had been meritorious. Do not complain, Deputy Bombacci, if your newspaper was suspended. The next time we will suppress it altogether...
...Guinta: "I am speaking for myself. We cannot allow Communist papers to carry on criminal propaganda. . . . You, Deputy Bombacci, asked whether you still enjoyed the rights of Italian citizenship. We reply that you do not, because all your actions prove you to be unworthy of that honor...
...Guinta: "What would deputy Bombacci say if I went to Moscow and published a Fascist newspaper there"? Would I have any rights of citizenship? Would the law protect...