Word: moris
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that began last week marked one of the last stages in a campaign that began in May 1926 when Benito Mussolini decided that the secret terrorist organization known as the Sicilian Mafia, the "Black Hand," was a blot on the name of Italy. He commis- sioned Fascist Prefect Cesare Mori of Palermo to eradicate...
...three years earnest Fascists scoured Sicily worming evidence from terrified farmers against the Mafia. In 1929, when the offices of Fascist Mori were jammed with evidence of more than 100 murders, the first of these great mass trials began (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927). Fascist prosecutors rushed from Rome to Sicily. In May 1929, 150 Mafisti were convicted at Termini Imerese. In January 1930, 170 more were sent to jail at Palermo. In July of the same year nine were given life sentences at Agrigento. Last week's trial nearly finishes...
...paid his way by training a prize fighter, selling class canes, newspaper work. After college he studied languages and psychology in Europe. Onetime U. S. Managing Editor of Encyclopedia Britannica, he is professor of journalism at Co lumbia University, is famed among editors for his consultant ability in reviving mori bund magazines. Other books: The Psy chology of Happiness, The Twilight of the American Mind, The Art and Business of the Short Story, How to Write Stories, Must We Fight Japan?, The Art of Rapid Reading, The Art of Sound Pictures (with William M. Marston: TIME...
...resuscitation of their confidence in each other, lay Chairman Young's greatest right to have his name applied to the Reparations plan which was finally adopted. From the Orient, where such things are most highly appreciated came Chairman Young's highest praise, when Delegate Keingo Mori of Japan said: "I could not have conceived, unless I had seen it, of an American having such patience...