Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unconfirmed but persistent rumor from Rome, last week, was to the effect that Count Volpi considers his work of rehabilitating Italian finance now complete, and plans to retire soon from active statesmanship...
...chores around the St. Bernard hospice; and since the 11th Century snow-rescue work has been one of the chores. All was ready for a demonstration for the benefit of the visitors last week. But the visitors were not from the U. S. They were members of an Italian cinema troupe, come to make a realistic film of the dogs in action with their attendants. The Augustinians were willing. But the troupe, having reached its destination, was not. The actors had had enough snow and cold. They would risk their lives no further. They gave up, they quit. The Augustinians...
...incident might have been confined to a few babbling Italian quarters, but for the alertness of liberty-loving Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays and other advocates of the Sacco-Vanzetti brief in Massachusetts' recent spectacle...
...tawdry Bronx courtroom, Lawyer Darrow, one of the most dangerous lions of the U. S. bar, exercised the expressive seams in his face, hunched his expressively hulking shoulders, intoned his expressive drawl, until he convinced 12 jurors who had no interest in the political passions of "little Italy" that Italian political passions were the motives underlying the prosecution; that the prosecution's case rested solely upon identification of a rear-view of one of the alleged murderers, the identifier being a Fascist organizer who hated the very benches the defendants sat on. The jurors acquitted the Messrs. Greco...
...lion roared legally last week; a mouse hid defiantly behind its lawyers. The Crowell Publishing Co. sued the Italian Monthly Co., Inc., seeking to enjoin them from printing across the cover of their new magazine The New American. The lion complains this title might be confused with The American Magazine, giant of 2,162,252 circulation. The mouse doubts it; seeks chiefly to stimulate Italian Americans. The new magazine is soberly manufactured; contains writings of Benedetto Croce, Margaret Widdemer...