Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centuries of punishment that began last week marked one of the last stages in a campaign that began in May 1926 when Benito Mussolini decided that the secret terrorist organization known as the Sicilian Mafia, the "Black Hand," was a blot on the name of Italy. He commis- sioned Fascist Prefect Cesare Mori of Palermo to eradicate...
Like every other Balkan state, Bulgaria is riddled with racial minorities. Some 50 years ago the Macedonians of southwestern Bulgaria organized, to press their claims for independence, a society known as the Inner Macedonian Revolutionary Organization-Imro. Potent as Calabria's oldtime Mafia is the Imro. For years its members have murdered and bombed their opponents; seldom has a Bulgar dared appear against them...
Every now and then Fascist editors announce that Il Duce has suppressed the dread Sicilian Mafia "entirely," but every now and then a few hundred more Mafiosi are dragged into court...