Word: matteotti
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Died. Amerigo Dumini, 74, Italian Fascist gangster and organizer of the 1924 murder of a Socialist deputy that almost toppled Mussolini's young regime; in Rome. Soon after accusing Il Duce's government of corruption, Deputy Giacomo Matteotti was kidnaped and beaten to death. The killing produced such a violent public outcry that Dumini was finally arrested and convicted, but let off with a few months' sentence-which grew to 30 years when he was retried, for murder...
...townsfolk his recent visit to Washington as evidence of Italy's high standing with the U.S. For campaign purposes even Fanfani's Socialist allies have been warming to the U.S. Asked a Socialist speaker, confident of an affirmative answer from a crowd in Bologna's Piazza Matteotti: "If Kennedy were in Italy, would he not support the opening to the left?" Perhaps he would...
Died. Tito Zaniboni, 77, World War I hero who in 1925 plotted to revenge the Fascist-directed murder of Fellow Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti by shooting Mussolini during one of his balcony orations, was betrayed by a conspirator, sentenced, and finally freed in 1943 by the Allies, who put him in charge of purging Fascists; of injuries suffered when he fell while boarding a bus; in Rome...