Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walter S. Landis spoke for the American Cyanamid Co.; and Professor Harry Alfred Curtis of Yale listened in behalf of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. All the great Scandinavian chemical sel-skabs were well represented, as were Italian firms, and from France came the learned Professor L. Bretangnière most hospitable and informatively loquacious was famed Herr Doktor J. Bueb of the "I. G." Herr Doktor Bueb suggested complacently that it is a duty of governments to abolish all tariffs or taxes on nitrogen fertilizers and to secure their transport at preferential freight rates, because the more nitrate...
When Romans opened the leading and authoritative Fascist news organ L'Impero, last week, they read with gladsome surprise that an Italian now "dominates" not merely the U. S. but all the Americas...
...This indicates the real strength of that empire of civilization which tomorrow's Italy will become. As Napoleon once dominated Europe through France, so this modern Italian financially dominates America through the United States...
...conquered the Americans at their own game. . . . Giannini, until yesterday a great Italian citizen of America, is now a great citizen of Italy. . . . Countries become great through such citizens and Rome founded the greatest political and human civilization in the world through such personal abnegation and honesty...
...life of the average Italian citizen has undergone such severe regulation of late that he scarcely dares kiss his wife or buy a shirt without consulting the latest edict on that subject issued by his benevolent government, now impersonated by Mussolini. But for a man with the capacity for government possessed by that dictator, human beings and their actions do not offer sufficient scope for action. From them be now turns to a lesser form of life and decrees the abolition of the common house-fly, a creature that infests Rome no less than any other city. Every citizen will...