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...Shock Troops. Meanwhile, strikes threatened to paralyze the country. In the industrial north, 800,000 steelworkers were going out on a general strike; to Italian leftists, steelworkers are known as the "motorized divisions of the Communist revolution." In Florence, city employees were on strike, in Messina the printers walked out. In Catanzaro it was the building workers, and in the Venetian province the railway and streetcar workers. In Terni, demonstrating workers carried posters denouncing the Pope as a "starver of the poor," and suggesting that Premier de Gasperi be hanged. Most serious of all was the battle of the fields...
Salvemini received his Ph.D. at the University of Florence, Italy. He was a member of the Italian Parliament from 1919 to 1921. After teaching at the University of Messina, the University of Pisa, the University of Florence, and other institutions in Italy, he came to America in 1932. Since 1933, he has been the de Bosts lecturer here, sandwiching in lectures at other universities, including Yale University and the University of Chicago. He was naturalized...
Bright Idea. In Chicago, a court order forbade Nick Messina to throw lighted matches at his mother...
Himself a little man, born at Scylla, not far from mythical Charybdis, in the Straits of Messina, he had long tossed between the rock of poverty and the whirlpool of Fascist repression. Until the blackshirts fell, he had eked out an existence as a statistician. Then, on Columbus Day, 1944, he had rediscovered America for his countrymen...
...Danny's Hideaway, a small, newly opened mid-Manhattan bar & grill. The boss-a black-haired little ex-soldier named Dante Stradella-reacted just as many another enterpriser had acted before him. First he argued. He had served 18 months overseas with the Army, had been wounded at Messina, was trying to make a start on borrowed money. The union would cramp his style. When that got him nowhere, in clipped West Side accents he spoke what was closer to his heart: he thought the union was a racket; his answer was no. To this routine performance the union...