Word: sturzo
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Died. Don Luigi Sturzo, 87, priest, brilliant political theorist and grand old man of Italian politics, who led Italy's Roman Catholics back into politics after the bitter break with secular leaders, following Italy's unification, founded (1919) the broad-based Popular Party, largely Catholic but independent of the Vatican, which steered an enlightened middle course between burgeoning extremists of left and right, rose after the Fascist interlude to be Italy's dominant Christian Democratic Party; of a heart attack; in Rome. At the zenith (1923) of his powers Sturzo fell before the violent tactics of Mussolini...
Zoli as a young man had joined the Christian political movement of famed Don Luigi Sturzo, which later became the Demo-Christian Party. When De Gasperi died, Zoli succeeded to the presidency of the party and frequently acted as a peacemaker between the party's feuding factions...
Political Career: After the war, he became a teacher of Italian at a technical school, helped found Don Luigi Sturzo's Popular Party (forerunner of the Christian Democrats). Elected to Parliament in 1919, he served briefly in Mussolini's first government, but when Mussolini began to show his iron hand, Gronchi resigned. Barred from teaching because he refused to take the Fascist oath of allegiance, he became a salesman, first of neckties, then of American-made paints, worked his way up and ended as owner of a prosperous synthetic-varnish factory...
...week's end, when the congress broke up, there was some solid evidence that Economist Levy and other delegates had gotten their point across. In Italy's Senate, Don Luigi Sturzo, 83-year-old founder of the Demo-Christian Party, an implacable foe of statism and an old enemy of E.N.I.'s Mattei, rose to demand quick passage of the new mining act. Said he: "There is no good reason why private firms, either Italian or foreign, should not carry out research with their own capital and at their own risk." As for E.N.I, itself, even...
...model trains, which fill one room of his Rome apartment. Born near Pisa in modest circumstances, he worked his way through college, was an early leader of the Catholic workers' movement, was decorated for gallantry three times in World War I. A founding member of Don Luigi Sturzo's Popular Party, predecessor of the Christian Democrats, Gronchi served briefly in Mussolini's first government in 1922, but rapidly soured on II Duce and was forced out of public life by Mussolini's displeasure. A leader of Italy's underground in World War II, he served...