Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steep prices when Hitler rose to power, and used the proceeds to flee his hand. In his might, Dictator Hitler grew bashful about his art: he seized all the examples he could find, destroyed most of them. A few he presented to such cronies as Göring and Mussolini...
...Librarian. Anti-Fascist Alcide de Gasperi was a regular inmate of Mussolini's prisons until, his health broken, he was let out in 1929. He spent the next 14 years in the quiet of the Vatican Library-as a clerk, filing index cards. He stretched his $80-a-month salary, on which he supported a wife and four daughters, by translating from the German at a nickel a page. Meanwhile, he kept in touch with his fellow Christian Democrats, and when Mussolini fell, a skeleton Christian party was ready. By April 1945 De Gasperi was Italy's Foreign...
...month, five-flights-up Rome apartment he rented even after becoming Premier. His grateful party last year gave him an eight-room villa and his salary has gone up to $500 a month. A kind of Latin Attlee, De Gasperi is the complete antithesis of his predecessor, Mussolini. Like Adenauer in Germany and Schuman and Bidault in France-Roman Catholics all-De Gasperi belongs to that underrecognized group of Christian Democrats who have done most to save postwar Western Europe. At a time when the left was divided in Marxist confusion, and the right was discredited by its past...
Died. Howard Chandler Christy, 79, famed painter of glossy portraits (Presidents Harding and Coolidge, Benito Mussolini) and illustrations (the memorable World War I "Fight or Buy Bonds" posters); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Once, asked to do a series of paintings showing the evolution of the American girl, whom he had long glorified with pen and brush, Christy begged off: "Gosh! She's never evoluted . . . same old girl she always has been...
Umberto Calosso has spent most of his 56 years fighting a rear-guard action against Fascism. In 1923 Mussolini jailed him for speaking against the new order. Calosso escaped to the north, where he got a job as a schoolteacher, but, not content merely to teach, he began editing an anti-Fascist newspaper. Hearing that Mussolini's blackshirts were after him, he fled Italy...