Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italians. Another racial question was raised last week when a Dr. Charles Fama of the Bronx, N. Y., promulgated the prophecy that 90% of the country's Italian-American vote would be pro-Hoover. The reason, according to Dr. Fama, was that Italians have been taught to favor "separation of church and state." Dr. Fama charged that secret orders were coming from Italy instructing U. S. Fascists to vote for Smith. Such orders, he said, would be indignantly disobeyed...
Rumors of Italian panic were whooped up on the hostile Paris Bourse until even in Manhattan, where so many financiers are notoriously pro-Fascist, quotations on the most impeccably secured Italian bonds moved down as much as 1¾ points. As uncertainty grew to fear the Italian lira, which Count Volpi placed on a gold basis cf 5.26? last December, sank abruptly to 5.23½, a low record...
From Paris came a second wave of panic rumors-again with repercussions in Manhattan. Fascist censors were suppressing, it was declared, the fact that Italian bankruptcies have risen from 500 per month in 1923 to over 900 per month. Substantial Italian banks with capitalizations of between one and 600 million lira were stated to be going bankrupt at the rate of one such institution every fortnight. Finally bills to a total value of three and a half million lira were declared to have been dishonored during the past twelvemonth in the three provinces of Rome, Milan and Turin...
Though the 289 Mayors steamed with wrath and sweated in the July heat, not a drop of perspiration stood forth upon the bald, pink cranium of Ignaz Seipel. Did they realize, he rapped sternly, that he had only just patched up the break in Austro-Italian relations which occurred when an Austrian mob stormed the Italian consulate at Innsbruck (TIME, June 4), resulting in the recall of the Italian Minister from Vienna. Were they conscious that not until last fortnight did Italian Minister Giacinto Auriti return to Vienna. Under the circumstances, and considering the relative potencies of militant Italy...
...dedication began 20,000 assembled Italian War Veterans spontaneously cheered their beloved little king-one of the few monarchs to visit front line trenches under fire during the War. With a brisk salute, His Majesty acknowledged the cheer, then sat, impassive and noncommittal, while the inaugural oration was pronounced by Minister of Public Works O. Giuriati. Orated he, in reckless, provocative, and typically Fascist style...