Word: segni
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world direly reporting that nothing less than freedom itself was at stake in Sicily. And as the time came for Sicilians to elect a new regional assembly, Christian Democratic orators by the Fiat-ful raced about the island tirelessly echoing the warning of Italy's Premier Antonio Segni: "We must be on our guard if we are not to awaken in the bear hug of Communism...
...minus a few tail feathers. Critics have often suggested a concealed ownership of the heavily subsidized Milan daily // Giorno (circ. 150,000), which has consistently backed Mattei's causes and opposed his detractors, followed a left-of-center line, and often been hostile to actions of Premier Antonio Segni's regime. The government consistently denied that taxpayers' money was backing // Giorno, Last week Mario Ferrari-Aggradi, head of the government ministry that controls state properties, stunned Senators by candidly acknowledging that ΙΙ Giorno does indeed belong to Mattei's ENI oil monopoly...
...them neo-Fascists-marched on the Austrian embassy and hurled stones at the riot police, who doused them with fire hoses and chased them down in red Jeeps. Going before the Chamber of Deputies to win a necessary vote of confidence for his new government, Italian Premier Antonio Segni attacked those who were making "political capital" of the South Tyrol issue, insisted that it is a "matter that concerns Italy alone." He was promptly voted into office by 333-248, the biggest majority that any Italian Premier, even De Gasperi, has had since the war. Austrians were talking of carrying...
Best known for his successful campaign to push through Italy's liberal land reform law, Segni in 1955 put together a Cabinet that lasted longer (22 months) than any since the heyday of the late Alcide de Gasperi. This time, with a Cabinet of Christian Democrats only, he hopes to be invested with the help, or the helpful abstention, of all Italy's right-wing parties, including the Liberals, Monarchists, and neoFascists...
...Segni's critics say that his chief attraction, aside from his kindly personality, is his scrupulous avoidance of vigorous action. But his patchwork Cabinet may be around awhile nonetheless. Among his fellow politicians he is known as "the cracked vase"-an allusion to an Italian proverb which says that a cracked vase often outlasts an uncracked one because everybody handles it so tenderly...