Word: progresso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's II Progresso Italo-Ameri-cano had run a full-page ad last January calling for a committee of 100,000 to get at least a million letters off to Italy posthaste. Points to be made to relatives in the old country: food and relief has been coming from the U.S., not Yugoslavia or other Soviet satellites; Italy's hope for peace depends...
...main purpose of Il Mondo was to undercut the biggest two Italian dailies of the U.S., Il Progresso Italo-Americana and Correire d'America, owned by New York sand and gravel Tycoon Generoso Pope. For Publisher Pope has often been accused of hobnobbing with Fascist bigshots, of employing Fascists on his editorial staffs, of printing pro-American editorials in English and pro-Mussolini editorials in Italian...
...final turning point came six weeks ago when Publisher Pope put his papers in the hands of the high-powered public-relations firm of Institute of Public Relations, Inc. Soon to a Montana internment camp went Il Progresso's No. 1 reporter Gene Rea, reported in a feature article that Italian prisoners were mostly happy, excellently treated. Other similar stories followed...