Word: nitti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good friend of the brothers was Francesco Nitti, nephew of Francesco Nitti, Prime Minister of Italy, 1919-20. Uncle Nitti, a full-blooded anti-Fascist was hounded out of Rome in 1925, later went to live in Paris. It was with Nephew Nitti that Carlo escaped from his island prison. To the Süreté last week Francesco Nitti declared: "The murder of the Roselli brothers could have been committed . . . only by experts in political crime...
...Johnson. So far Attorney Johnson has prosecuted eight Chicago racketeers on tax evasion charges, has convicted all of them. Among them are Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, who has appealed his three-year sentence; Sam Guzick, another Capone-man, who started serving his year-and-a-day last week; Frank Nitti, Capone treasurer, who is locked in Leavenworth doing 18 months...
Next move of Satan is to create "from the most lurid infernal material" Francesco Saverio Nitti and make him Prime Minister of Italy. Under Nitti Bolshevism almost strangles Fascism, but God the Father in the nick of time sends Hero Garibaldi in a dream to Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio. Counseled by Garibaldi, aided by Mussolini, d'Annunzio rushes to the rescue of the Roman Victory, severs her chains and leads her triumphant to Fiume...
Satan's last stand is made when he replaces Nitti as Prime Minister with the still more sulphureous and infernal Giovanni Giolitti. Bolshevism is about to seize Italy once more. In this supreme emergency the Unknown Soldier descends from Heaven, rushes to the aid of Il Duce and Fascism, and the glorious March to Rome is planned...
Also in Chicago last week, in Federal court, Frank Nitti, Al Capone's cousin and reputedly the man who arranges Capone-killings, pleaded guilty to charges of evading payment of $158,823 income taxes, his share of the Capone "mob's" profits for the years 1925-27. With complete candor he explained that the money had been come by through all sorts of racketeering. He was pained and surprised that the Government taxed such incomes. Said he: "I talked with a half a dozen attorneys and they didn't know any more than...