Word: nitti
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...because Irey was able to prove to a jury that he hadn't shared his swag with the U.S. Treasury. One of Al's boys gave Irey's planted agent a classic explanation of Capone's success: "Everything is businesslike. Take The Enforcer [Gunman Frank Nitti]; he keeps everybody in line for Al. Somebody gets out of line, Al tells The Enforcer, the next thing you know a couple of guys get off a train from Detroit or New York or St. Louis, and The Enforcer tells them who has to go. The guys...
...blame for Italy's being in history's junk yard? Italy's witty ex-Premier Francesco Nitti named a couple of safe scapegoats: Christopher Columbus and Niccolo Machiavelli. Machiavelli, Nitti explained, had "made us Italians out as men who are always ready to lie," Columbus was an even bigger culprit: his "indiscretion," Nitti claimed, had "shifted the axis of the world to the West," and Italy had been off the beam ever since...
...Constituent Assembly Premier Alcide De Gasperi wanly faced a bitter opposition. Said he: "The land invasion is unjustified, because seeding time comes in November." Said World War I Finance Minister Francesco Nitti, 78: "De Gasperi is like the sick man who, when the doctors told him to give up wine, women, and song, answered, 'I'll do it very gradually. For the moment I'll give up song...
...Italy, four old men, from right of center, formed a Democratic Union as a counter to Communist-Socialist cooperation. Three were ex-Premiers: Vittorio Orlando, 85; Francesco Nitti, 77; Ivanoe Bonomi, 72. The fourth was famed Philosopher Benedetto Croce...
...burglar and small-time gambler. But Dago Mangano had brains and a pleasant, breezy personality. He soon became known as a man of executive ability. When Al Capone ran Chicago's Syndicate, Mangano was a trusted lieutenant. After Capone there was much unrest. The late Frank (The Enforcer) Nitti, Jack Guzik (TIME, May 1) and the incumbent Tony Accardo, successively became Syndicate chieftains...