Word: italianity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City has 1,070,000 of Italian birth or parentage; 945,000 of Russian; 613,000 of Irish; 600,000 of German; 178,000 of English; 240 Hindus; 136 Icelanders and one Siamese. It has 2,000,000 Jews (of various nationalities); 440,000 Negroes...
...There are 1,150 Italian restaurants ("Very few of them ever serve a bad meal...
...Italians now almost equal Jews of all nationalities in the once predominantly Jewish clothing industry and unions (C. I. O.'s Amalgamated; independent International Ladies' Garment Workers), whose rolls show 100,000 Italian members...
First program, broadcast over MBS on a quarter-hour contributed by Manhattan's WOR on the eve of Flag Day, was designed to appeal to Americans of Italian ancestry. Main speakers: two Italian urchins from Greenwich Village (one planned to exercise his U. S. freedom of initiative to become a prizefighter) and Italian-born New York City Treasurer Commendatore Almerindo Portfolio, who rose from a $2-a-week messenger to the presidency of the Bank of Sicily and the head of a cloak & suit concern (which in 1924 he gave to six employes). Commendatore Portfolio's talk...
...best proof of "Master Hans's" ability to handle crowded, minute composition, was his series of six panels on the life of St. Ursula from Bruges' own ancient Hospital of St. John. According to legend, the artist might never have painted this challenge to the Italian rhythmists if he had not found sanctuary in the hospital as a wounded soldier during a Flemish rebellion against the Habsburg rule...