Word: sicilianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Salvatore Giuliano, 27, famed Sicilian bandit, a Robin Hood to many a peasant and schoolboy, public enemy No. 1 to Italy's police; trapped by carabinieri gunfire; in Castelvetrano, Sicily (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Novelist Baron's soldiers belonged to a company of battle-worn British infantrymen who had fought their way across the Sicilian plain in the summer of 1943 and reached the seaport town of Catania, in the shadow of Mt. Etna. There they commandeered a tenement building and settled down to rest...
Behind the Screen. Then the Congressmen went after facts, and what they found told an entirely different story about the domain of old Joe Di Giorgio, the Sicilian immigrant who had drilled wells, laid miles of underground pipe and invested $9.7 million to turn a plot of arid land into a production line of agriculture (TIME, March 11, 1946). Di Giorgio wages had always been as good as any in the valley (currently 80? to $1.10 per hour); Di Giorgio had voluntarily carried workmen's compensation insurance for his employees. His homes for workers were no palaces (some were...