Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the 1948 Bollingen Prize for Poetry went to Ezra Pound, longtime tub-thumper for MusSolini and fascism, there was a literary and political furor from Bangor to San Diego, and a joint congressional committee abolished all further Library of Congress awards. Last week, the $1,000 award's new trustees at Yale University announced the winner for 1949: Wallace Stevens, 70, vice president of the Hartford (Conn.) Accident & Indemnity...
Both the Cornigliano and Terni plants are owned by Finsider (Finanziaria Siderurgica), a government-owned steel trust set up by Mussolini to modernize Italy's steel industry. (It now controls 45% of the industry.) The trust did not do very well with the production of rolled steel: total production last year was only 300,000 tons, barely half the country's requirements. When it reaches capacity in about two years, Cornigliano alone will roll 458,000 tons, and should be able to undersell other Italian-made steel by 25%. Armco will send 60 technicians to Italy to train...
...poor-kid-to-papal-prince story is only one. In scores of inside scenes the intimate work of the Roman Catholic Church is described, from a destitute U.S. parish to the Pope's chambers. Church politics are examined, from curates parochial gripes to Vatican policy on Hitler and Mussolini. Figures in the novel include three Popes, many cardinals and archbishops whom readers may think they recognize, a powerful Boston-Irish contractor and political boss, high personages in prewar Italian society...
Rotting corpses, noisome reminders of Mussolini's sordid victory, littered the Ethiopian bush. It was treacherous country at best, full of crocodiles and hostile tribesmen-certainly no place for an Ital ian soldier to go wandering. But the lieu tenant had a bad tooth. He had to get to an army dentist, and a short cut through the bush would cut his traveling time in half...
Correspondent Streit covered Mussolini's March on Rome. He went to North Africa for the New York Times to report the peaceful exhuming of an older, buried civilization-Carthage-and found himself reporting the Riff war. He covered the Balkans and ended up finally covering the League of Nations in Switzerland...