Word: italien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon of April 15, 1920, two men shot and killed a paymaster and a company guard in the course of a $16,000 payroll robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. More than seven years later, two Italien aliens named Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were electrocuted for this crime, following one of the longest and most sensational cases in the history of American criminal law. The Sacco-Vanzetti ease aroused violent popular feeling all over the world. For years the liberal and radical elements of America and Europe were engaged in a roaring battle of words with the judiciary and administration...
...great Cardinal did these things, Carl J. Burckhardt's book described brilliantly this week. Carl Burckhardt is a Swiss and grandson of Historian Jakob Burckhardt, famed author of Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien. Before the Nazi Gleichschaltung, Biographer Burckhardt was League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig. To the writing of 17th-Century history he brings an unusual firsthand knowledge of 20th-century practical politics. He also brings a keen grasp of the political mind, a powerful prose style. He uses them for a kind of historical writing in which, instead of reading history, the reader seems...
...been active in Russia and the Scandinavian countries as a conductor and teacher, will conduct the orchestra in a rather unusual program consisting of Rossini's Overture to "la Gazza Ladra," the First Symphony of Shostakovitch, Max Reger's Variations on a Theme of Mozart, and Tchaikovsky's "Capriccio Italien." The inclusion of both the Rossini and the Tchaikovsky makes the program as a whole rather light. We are not acquainted with the Reger composition, but we hope that these variations are above the level of some piano works and a vacuous suite for Violoncello alone by this composer which...