Word: malagodi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political oratory shrouded the Italian peninsula. In one 24-hr, period last week Italy was subjected to no less than 20,000 campaign speeches. To some of the candidates it seemed that the bulk of these had been delivered by a single man: brilliant, persuasive Liberal Party Leader Giovanni Malagodi...
...Malagodi's party, which has a proud past, is today one of the smallest (13 seats) in Italy's Chamber of Deputies, cannot muster sufficient money or manpower to match the lavish campaign efforts of its bigger rivals. To compensate, hard-driving Giovanni Malagodi has taken up a device foreign to Italian politics-the whistle-stop tour. Since last October, traveling alone, he has spoken, rain or shine, in hundreds of cities, towns and villages from Sicily to Piedmont. In the process, his level, rasping voice has won more attention than that of any other Italian politician...
Down the Middle. All this has come as a rude shock to opposition politicians. The party which Malagodi heads is the heir to the one that made Italy a nation, and, until the advent of Mussolini, most of Italy's Premiers called themselves Liberals. But in 1952, when Malagodi joined the party, it was, says one of its members, "in the seventh day of pneumonia." Thanks to his family's longtime prominence in Liberal politics and his own sharp intelligence-he was general manager of Milan's giant Banca Commerciale Italiana at 29-stocky Giovanni Malagodi rose...
Inside Fight. Vice Premier Saragat, leader of the Social Democrats, was less mild. "This is not a government crisis," he snapped. "This is a Christian Democratic crisis. Moreover, this Christian Democratic crisis is due to purely personal and not to political reasons." The Liberals' Party Secretary Giovanni Malagodi scornfully attacked Pella's "strange argument" that "a one-party government would get its votes from the right for so-called national measures, while it would receive votes from the left for social measures. In other words, over the prostrate body of the nation would rule two demagogues...