Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italian journalism is free because it serves only the cause and the regime. . . . Elsewhere the press is at the orders of plutocratic groups and vested interests, such as public utilities and the steel industry; elsewhere the press is reduced to buying and selling sensational news, whose reiterated reading causes in the public a kind of stupefied saturation, with symptoms of debility, inanition and imbecility; elsewhere newspapers are grouped in the hands of a few individuals who consider journalism an industry, like iron or leather...
...necessary that the Italian press be ... staffed with men . . . who above all are moved not by material objectives but inspired by idealistic motives. . . . It is true that the note of all Fascist writings is the same, but the note is struck not by my Government, but harmoniously by the Fascist journalists themselves. ... They do not await orders, day by day. They carry their orders in their consciences...
London Show. $50,000,000 worth of orders were placed before the London automobile show opened last week. 45% of the cars exhibited were of British make; the rest were French, German, Italian, Belgian, Austrian, U. S. Cars of seven to ten horsepower, selling from $500 to $1,500, drew the most customers...
Guido Murray Fabbricotti (Commendatore della Corona d'Ttalia, Centauro of the Carrara Fascist Patrol, ex-British citizen) is today's reigning marble tycoon. To his sister is married his first cousin, Carlo Andrea Fabbricotti, ex-officer of the Italian Navy, ex-officer of the Italian Army, ex-Italian Ambassador to the Romanov court of St. Petersburg. These two men, kinsmen and rivals, carry on the 500-year Fabbricotti tradition...
Toward New York, last week, plowed the black Italian freighter Tagliamento, laden with a cargo of white Carrara marble. In the yards of C. D. Jackson Co., Manhattan stone importers, marblemen waited its arrival. For nine months, not a shipload of Carrara had left Italy. What was once the bread-and-butter of all marbles had become a U. S. rarity...