Word: italianity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Internationally famed as an arch foe of Fascism, Gaetano Salvemini, who is to lecture on Medieval Italian History here next term, declared in an interview yesterday that Germany holds the key position in the Italo-French dispute over Tunis...
Nazi intervention in Africa is not very likely at present, Salvemini believes, but will become a reality on the day Hitler has rid himself of the "Russian menace." As soon as Germany can afford to remove its forces from the eastern frontier, "France-Italian relations will reach a critical point...
...Peruvian] Government's sympathies are intensely fascist," continued Mr. White, "and the Government was furious at the disclosure of German and Italian activities against the Pan-American Conference. On the opening day . . . Lima appeared to be the site of a great Nazi rally. There were literally thousands of swastika flags all over the city. There were only three American flags on the main street, and one of them was at the American Consulate. Also there were more Italian and Japanese flags than there were flags of any South American countries. Throughout the Conference the Government-controlled newspapers used prominent...
...widely ballyhooed community banquet (1,000 guests), Kankakee toasted a pair of local boys, Harry Stella and Allen Bergner. Born within eight months of one another (the year before thg U. S. entered the Great War), young Stella, son of an Italian immigrant, wanted to be a soldier; young Bergner, son of a German immigrant, wanted to be a sailor. Playmates from boyhood, both made the football team at Kankakee High School: Stella at right tackle, Bergner at left tackle. When they were graduated, Stella went to West Point, Bergner to Annapolis...
Broker Joseph Sisto, debonair son of Italian immigrants, spoke no English until he was ten, worked his way through high school and Wall Street to found his own firm in 1922. His first suspension was the result of overexpansion nipped by depression. Broker Sisto, good friend of Benito Mussolini, was in Italy visiting his many clients there when the crash came. He sped home, quickly arranged to pay his creditors 50? on the dollar, made up the balance with shares in Sisto Financial Corp., his personal investment trust...