Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editors feared that within a few minutes most of them might be out of jobs. They had heard rumors that Signor Mus- solini proposed to merge all Italian newspapers into a single, syndicated super-news organ, edited by the Dictator's brother, pudgy, tortoise-spectacled Arnaldo Mussolini, who carries on the Mussolini family newspaper Il Popolo d' Italia (The People of Italy) at Milan. As the tall clock in II Capo's antechamber ticked ominously, the nervous editors dropped their voices to whisper pitch...
Suddenly, surprisingly the heartbreaking tension snapped, as Il Capo smiled his peculiarly magnetic and friendly smile. With a few courteous sentences the host reassured his guests. He had called them in, he said, not to deprive them of their livelihood, but to dispel the false impression that the Italian press is not free, and to call upon them for industrious, intelligent support during the Italian electoral campaign of next Spring...
...Italian press," cried II Capo, "is the freest in the whole world! . . . For instance, anyone of your papers may say that as a violin player I am a very mediocre amateur...
...Italy& should have been marked by destiny. . . . It is the fortune of our country to have attracted thither an impressive number of the sons and daughters of this land where leadership and lofty talent have so long found noble fruition. . . ."-Calvin Coolidge, by letter, to the Italian Benevolent Society, among whose honorary presidents are Alfred Emanuel Smith and Benito Mussolini. The occasion: a Columbus Day festival in Manhattan...
...Progresso is but one of five Italian newspapers in New York City. Its most potent rival is Corriere d'America (circulation 53,401; 76,000 Sunday), which has been called the finest tabloid-sized newspaper...