Word: italianity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of State Cordell Hull, it was intended to be an unmistakable warning aimed squarely at the totalitarian States of Europe. Chief critic of the original version was Argentina. Always a strong advocate of solidarity, Argentina, dependent upon German and Italian purchases for a sizable amount of her trade, objected to such an outspoken attack on her totalitarian customers. Mr. Hull, unwilling to compromise President Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy by insisting that the U. S. have its way, allowed Argentina to substitute a pact which specified no particular kind of "foreign intervention." Then Brazil, traditional South American rival...
...would be allowed to exercise his absentee vote in the U. S. Hence the U. S. delegation voted for a measure which, if passed, would probably be most unpopular at home. But the measure's chief benefit was obviously to Argentina, Brazil and Chile, where large German and Italian blocs have been agitating for minority rights...
...Italy's Minister of Popular Culture, Dino Alfieri, last week ruled that Arnaldo Cortesi, Rome correspondent of the New York Times, must quit his job January 1, along with some 200 other Italian news men employed by foreign newspapers or press associations...
...been chosen a Rhodes Scholar from the New England district. The scholarship board called him one of the most unusual students ever to win a scholarship. Scholar Roosevelt is completing the regular four-year course at Harvard in three years, reads 13 languages (English, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Icelandic, German, Gaelic, Welsh, Anglo-Saxon, Arabic, Russian, Middle High German...
Cheese and Hair. In 1884, the year when Frank Donald Coster (according to his listing in Who's Who) was born in Washington, D. C., Philip Musica, an Italian immigrant boy, was playing in the streets of Manhattan's "Little Italy," where his father Antonio had a barber shop. Antonio made enough money to open a store where he sold cheese imported from Italy. Philip grew up to run the importing end of the business. He ran it so well that the Musicas prospered, moved to the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn and there became leaders of Italian...