Word: nitti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, radiant at the prospect of getting more & more of the 26 Enemies before him, Judge Lyle ordered Sammons held in $150,000 bond for Federal prosecution on hijacking charges. He cancelled all bail for Gang Leader Frank Nitti...
...Italy's onetime Prime Minister (1919-20), Signore Francesco Saverio Nitti has said: "After the War a rich American, who was deeply touched by the French propaganda, sent an emissary to Belgium with the intention of providing a livelihood for the children whose poor little hands had been cut off. He was unable to discover one. Mr. Lloyd George and myself, when at the head of the Italian Government, carried on extensive investigations as to the truth of these horrible accusations, some of which, at least, were told specifically as to names and places. Every case investigated proved...
Whether or not anti-Fascist Fernando attempted in good faith to shoot H. R. H., he was defended in good faith last week by none other than fiery anti-Fascist Francesco Nitti, fugitive onetime Prime Minister of Italy, commonly referred to by Fascist editors as "Nitti...
...young de Rosa in Paris," said Signore Nitti, while fat Fernando blushed modestly among his chins, "and he impressed me as an honest, moderate, loyal and well-educated young man. When I read the details of his act of last October I was convinced that his intention was not to kill but to attract public attention to the deplorable state of affairs in Italy. . . . Everywhere men of different beliefs and shades of opinion are allowed to assemble except in Italy. Deprived of liberty and hearing lots of talk about violence, what shall youth...
...Your remarks, Signore Nitti, seem to be irrelevant to the de Rosa case," said the presiding judge peering over his spectacles. Signore Nitti brushed this aside as immaterial and spoke for another ten minutes on the bitterness of life under Mussolini...