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...targets were Tony Lombardo, president of the Italian-American Club, good friend of Alphonse' ("Scarface Al") Capone; and one of Mr. Lombardo's bodyguards, Joseph Ferrara. Mr. Lombardo lay down on the sidewalk and writhed until he died. Mr. Ferrara, wounded in the back, writhed until the ambulance came. He died in a hospital without telling who the murderers might...
...Italians. Another racial question was raised last week when a Dr. Charles Fama of the Bronx, N. Y., promulgated the prophecy that 90% of the country's Italian-American vote would be pro-Hoover. The reason, according to Dr. Fama, was that Italians have been taught to favor "separation of church and state." Dr. Fama charged that secret orders were coming from Italy instructing U. S. Fascists to vote for Smith. Such orders, he said, would be indignantly disobeyed...
...Significance. Secretary Mellon felt called upon to release a mimeographed bulletin from the U. S. Treasury Department which stated: "The present value of the British-Italian settlement represents about 16% of the indebtedness funded, and the present value of the Italian-American settlement represents about 26% of the indebtedness funded." (See TIME...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED. Tells the tale of an Italian-American in California who grows grapes and has prospered since Prohibition. He marries a young bride and touches trouble...
That musician who aroused perhaps the greatest discussion during the season in New York is Anton Biloti, the pianist. This young man, an Italian-American reared among the bourgeois respectabilities of University Heights, first gained publicity as a young boy by constructing a miniature trolley line on an uptown hillside for the amusement of himself and the neighborhood youth...