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...People. From Milan, Italy's second city, Benito Mussolini had plotted the March on Rome. From Milan now came the fiercest revolutionary impulses...
From many sources came reports of Italy in upheaval. Bern and Stockholm told of peace riots in Bologna, Milan and Rome, of clashes between Italians and German soldiery. The Fascist Blackshirt militia, posted on the northern frontier, it was said, had been replaced by Badoglio's police; bad blood brewed between the factions; Italy might yet be plunged into civil...
...what highlights might it dwell on? There were many: Varano di Costa, an old hamlet on a hill in northern Italy, where he was born 60 years ago; his schoolteacher mother and blacksmith father; the black columns of Popolo d'ltalia, "my most cherished child"; the day in Milan when he needlessly barricaded his newspaper shop while his comrades elsewhere marched on Rome and waited until he arrived by railroad sleeper; the following day when, in black shirt and hip pistol, he stood before Vittorio Emanuele and said: "I have just come from a bloodless battle that...
...brake shoe, patented a better one, sold her tidy little business for $200,000 in 1937. She bought a first-class ticket to Europe, but soon found she was less interested in cathedrals and art galleries than in the sooty, sprawling plants of the Ruhr, of Milan. She fell in love with steel...
Gallows built in sections in Detroit were shipped to the Milan (Mich.) penitentiary. The arrogant Stephan melted into whining hysteria. Hundreds of softhearted Americans and, reportedly, Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy (who opposes capital punishment) appealed to the White House for clemency...