Word: maffia
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...loafer and crook in Greece will consider himself the ally of the American General Staff-to be fed and kept in style by. the American taxpayer. . . . See to it that the money is used for the reconstruction of [Greece] and does not get into the hands of the Athens maffia...
...sprightly young political movement (resurgent Sicilian separatism) and one of Italy's most venerable criminal corporations (the Maffia) had got together to stir up trouble in Sicily for Premier Ivanoe Bonomi's somewhat rachitic Government. Always the separatists had had to make their trouble against odds. The Maffia was a powerful ally...
Some 15 years ago Benito Mussolini tried and failed to destroy the Maffia. He jailed its leaders in cages, marched them in chain gangs through the streets. But at last he had to concede: "The struggle against the Maffia will cease, not when the Maffia has ceased to exist, but when all memory of the Maffia has vanished from the minds of Sicilians." Last week the Maffia was making new memories which might keep Sicily in turmoil for some time to come. The Maffia had seldom had more volcanic soil to work...
Separatists claim a membership of 30,000 in their party. They claimed 20 times that number of followers. Among these New York Times Correspondent Herbert Matthews last week found the Maffia "deeply involved." The separatists claim that Sicily would be better off if free of Rome's remote control. The Maffia favors freedom too-to carry on its own peculiar stiletto justice...
...operation, Feme courts resembled the Maffia, the Ku Klux Klan and the vigilantes. Secret sentences of its kangaroo courts lay behind 354 political murders committed between the 1918 armistice and June 24, 1922, the day Germany's Jewish Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau died at the hands of the Feme. For all its crimes, two Feme murderers received light sentences in the skittish Weimar courts; the rest were left alone...