Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 15,000,000 low-salaried German workers the most active and pleasurable of the Reich's manifold organizations is the recreation-providing, culture-giving Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) Society. To 3,500,000 Italian workers membership in the Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro (National After-Work Organization) is a similar welcome means of getting cheap theatre and opera seats, cut-price vacations, inexpensive athletic facilities, free instruction in artistic and cultural studies...
Both these organizations are Fascism's spectacular answer to widely-voiced democratic criticisms that under dictatorships the masses do not fare well. Both were launched to replace the highly developed social and recreation programs of the now outlawed German and Italian Leftist labor unions. As astute Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels once said: "A government which really wants to penetrate the people must never leave the people to themselves...
There were visits to the reclaimed Pontine Marshes, Florence, Milan and the northern Italian lakes. Described to the delegates were Dopolavoro's 1,227 theatres in which are given 25,000 performances annually, Saturday matinees with seats selling at 2½, 5? and 10?. The delegates were taken to the sumptuous Dopolavoro clubhouse of the Air Force employes, and to the equally impressive railroaders' Dopolavoro club in Rome: 100 guest bedrooms, a theatre seating 1,500 persons, a library of 7,000 volumes, a restaurant, bar, poolroom, bocci-ball court, gymnasium. Also on view were "Thespis Cars," trucks...
...waxworks exhibition, in Paris, an Italian expatriate named Epiphani Dante, 40, walked up to the figure of Mussolini, contemplated it with hatred, shot himself...
...This report would substantiate lay testimony about two other dicephalous monsters who lived briefly last century. Ritta & Christina born at Sassari, Italy in 1829, waked & slept, laughed & wept diversely, and caused religious people of the time to debate "whether she had two souls or one." Another Italian, Giovanni & Giacomo, born at Locarno in 1877, could not walk because each head controlled only the leg on its side of the common body. He never learned to place one foot in front of the other...