Word: montecatini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reduced to a spectre by contusions in which gangrene had developed, died last week at Cannes, French Riviera. Fascist bludgeons ? semi-flexible weapons of wood fibre covered with leather and loaded with lead ? killed him, drove his wife insane. These blows were struck many months ago, at Montecatini, in Tuscany (TIME, Aug. 3, 1925). It was only last week that their full effect was felt. Never again will Deputy Giovanni Amendola, leader of the Italian "Aventine Opposition," onetime Colonial Minister under Premier Nitti, stand up to oppose Benito Mussolini. The assassins are known but protected by the last...
Deputy Giovanni Amendola, leader of the Aventine Opposition, took it into his head last week to take the waters at Montecatini, near Lucca in Tuscany. But it never occurred to him that that section of Tuscany was homogeneously Fascist. Not long after he had entered the hotel, swarms of Black Shirts scooted down the mountains, congregated before Signor Amendola's hotel, groaned, booed, hissed. Finding little satisfaction in this, the crowd began to surge backward and forward, like a busy battering ram, in an effort to break the police cordons thrown round the building. Eventually several Fascisti dashed...
...accompanied by his secretary and two guardian Fascisti for safety, Deputy Giovanni Amendola left Montecatini for the nearby town of Pistoja amid a bombardment of sibilant Italian hisses. In the open country two automobiles barred the road. The Amendola car stopped, instantly the party was set upon by about 15 stalwart Fascisti and soundly clubbed. At Pistoja, a few minutes later, the Deputy was found to be suffering from shock, numerous contusions and some nasty cuts. Nothing dangerous developed and he was shipped back to his home in Rome...