Word: milan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Street. De Gasperi did not exaggerate the danger. A factory strike in Turin duplicated the general sitdown of 1922 which ushered in Mussolini. In Milan a jobless mob beat up municipal and police officials, and in Florence rowdies cut off the telephone central. Communist-dominated strikers at Mantua set up Soviet-like cells, prevented citizens from moving about unless they had passes signed by strike leaders...
...there-the first one five days from date. Toscanini had a sentimental memory of Lucerne: it was the city where he had conducted the night before war was declared in 1939. But sentiment had a rider. Toscanini wanted a guarantee of 90,000 francs ($21,060) to help rebuild Milan's bombed La Scala Opera House...
Swiss tourist offices stayed open 16 hours a day to sell concert tickets; Swiss railroads hurriedly scheduled special late trains to carry concertgoers back to outlying cantons. In the required five days, the opera house was sold out. Toscanini arrived from Milan with the 112-piece La Scala Orchestra for his first European concert outside Italy since the war. Lucerne heard the Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms and Debussy he had prepared for Paris and London...
...Milan, 79-year-old Arturo Toscanini, Wagnerian and symphonic conductor and renowned antiFascist, reacted to the news by canceling a benefit concert he was scheduled to give this week in Paris. Later he canceled a London engagement, offered to reimburse the Music, Art and Drama Society for its losses on 2,800 tickets. In protesting against "Italy's humiliation," he echoed the frenzied lamentations of Italian politicians and editors, one of whom wrote with rare unconscious humor: "Now the stab in the back has been repaid...
...market place at Abbiategrasso the women were in a dither. "And this man in Milan," one of them was saying, "can tell, simply by touching a photograph, whether the person in the picture is dead or alive." At the edge of the chattering group dark-eyed, eleven-year-old Antonio Costa listened entranced. He decided to go home and try the trick himself...