Word: tremelloni
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four years ago, Finance Minister Ezio Vanoni created a stir by requiring all Italians to make out annual tax returns. Roberto Tremelloni, Finance Minister in the Scelba government, went even further. Tremelloni introduced a bill which would for the first time 1) require an oath in making out. returns, and 2) exact penalties for defrauding the government. His bill got nowhere. Not only was it resisted by Neo-Fascists and Monarchists, but it was repellent to the big-money backers of the ruling Christian Democrats. The bill languished in committee until one day last month, when Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni...
Moscow, proclaimed a change in strategy. Nenni Socialists and their Communist allies would henceforth be willing to support "progressive legislation." With that, Tremelloni's bill was hauled out of committee and put to the vote...
...Premiers Mario Scelba and Giuseppe Pella absented themselves along with almost a third of their Christian Democrat followers. Of the 68 Monarchists and Neo-Fascists, only 13 were in the Chamber last week when the Tremelloni bill finally passed, 315 to 47. Well over 200 of the favorable votes were cast by the Communists and Nenni Socialists...
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