Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Daily Worker, U.S. Communist Leader Eugene Dennis (long an industrious Stalin bootlicker) put the accusation more mildly than the French and Italian Communists: "Why did these things happen? Were they inevitable? Are they inherent in socialism, in Communist philosophy?" And of the current leadership he inquired: "Did some of them try to bring about changes before the last three years? Could the past evils have been checked earlier? How big and serious are the changes now under...
...Sponges. Barby Sabini, a shifty Italian from the unsavory Saffron Hill district, started the racket way back in the 1920s when he and his brothers, armed with wet sponges, used to hang around the race tracks, erasing the chalked odds on the bookie's tote boards if they failed to pay protection money. After holding onto their franchise in the face of attacks by some of the toughest tearaways in The Smoke, the Sabini gang at last gave way to the Black Brothers, who in turn were muscled out by Jack Spot. Born of Polish-Jewish parents...
...literary, the Yard did not seem to mind. But then Billy Hill, bored with the artistic life, began to frequent his old haunts with the possible notion of taking over the rackets from Spot. One day last August, Spot, dressed in his elegant best, and a tearaway identified as "Italian Albert" Dimes began slashing at each other with shivs amid the crowds of shoppers in Soho's Frith Street−an event which indicated that, at the very least, things were not all quiet in the rackets. Because of the obliging perjury of a petty con man posing...
...Italian Bantamweight Mario D'Agata, a stone-deaf laundryman from Arezzo, opened a cut over the eye of Champion Robert Cohen in the third round of a match in Rome, and then kept slicing at it accurately and relentlessly. At the bell for the start of the seventh, Cohen's cut was bleeding uncontrollably, and D'Agata was new champion...
...Italian businessmen are notoriously allergic to taxation in any form. Nevertheless there was weight to their argument that the "law for tax equality," which was passed by a majority of Communist and Socialist votes, will in fact perpetuate inequality. Many big investors intend to keep right on dodging taxes by transferring their holdings to dummy Swiss corporations (which can be set up for only $300 a year in legal fees). Holders of government bonds, savings accounts, etc. totaling $2 billion (v. only $190 million worth of privately owned stock) will still be allowed to play ring-around-a-rosy with...