Word: matteotti
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fashionably gowned Italian Signoras, of whom there were dozens in the court. Other admiring females had presented them with especially woven Fascist black shirts. Their carefully knotted black ties and cool indifferent bearing suggested that no undue alarm surged in the breasts of these alleged murderers of Giacomo Matteotti, millionaire, Socialist, irreconcilable foe of Benito Mussolini (TIME, June...
...Matteotti murder (June 10, 1924), as everyone knows, seriously embarrassed the Fascist Party, resulted in the arrest of 25 Fascists, and gave rise to rumors which still brand Premier Mussolini with the suspicion of having instigated the assassination. One by one 20 of the more prominent arrested persons have been released by the public prosecutor or set free under the last general amnesty. Recently the wife of Matteotti withdrew from all participation in the prosecution which her attorneys characterized as "judicially and morally nil." Last week there began the trial of five men who are regarded widely as mere scapegoats...
...declared: "Since the Fascist Party is completely extraneous to the Matteotti murder, I, although Secretary General of the party, do not hesitate to assume the defense of the accused in my private capacity of barrister...
...part of which he composed in the Brooklyn jail.) ; 8) Served as chief publicity agent for the famed Kapp putsch, which tried to restore the throne of Germany to the Hohenzollerns; 9) Arrested by the Italian police charged with complicity in the murder of the millionaire Socialist Deputy Matteotti (TIME June 23, 1924, et seq.); Escaped to Ceylon where he became a Buddhist and was known as "Dr. Tandler...
...correspondents eagerly drank in the General's somewhat premature but colorful remarks: [ bring to the world the truth about Fascismo! I was one of those accused of complicity in the Matteotti murder. I was later shamefully prevented from proving my innocence before the courts by being released through a general amnesty. I still declare that Premier Mussolini was responsible for what happened to Matteotti!" (TIME, June...