Word: uno
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aventines may re-enter the Chamber, thanks to our tolerance, only after its leaders have made three public declarations: Uno. That the Fascist Revolution has become an accomplished fact, the Fascist régime, which has so altered the Constitution of the Italian state that any preconceived opposition to Fascismo is politically useless and historically absurd. Duo. That the nefarious and scandalous campaign of the Aventines has miserably failed, because it rested upon no foundation. Tre. That the Aventine pledges itself to cease to act in concert with Anti-Fascists abroad...
...Genoa the local Coal Exchange launched an appeal to all patriotic Italians to contribute voluntarily "uno dollaro" yearly toward Italy's payment of her debt to the U.S. The plan originally envisioned contributions from five million Italians, which would cover the full yearly payments for the first five years (TIME, Nov. 23). Cried II Duce when he heard of the plan: "Good. But for the present I need only $1,000,000. I shall expect that to be paid...
...Manhattan hosts interrupted the academic calm as best they could. They took the delegates-including Shu Tze of China-to examine a complete museum of bandit instruments. They called upon Shinzo Uno of Japan to show cinemas of police work during the Tokyo earthquake. They passed resolutions on coordination of finger prints and demonstrated the telephotograph. By this means, three finger prints were flashed to Chicago and in five minutes two criminals' names were telephoned back. (The third was not in the Chicago files...
...energies to suppressing the most annoying gambling evil in the Peninsula, the morra. In this game, two persons wave their hands simultaneously, while a crowd of surrounding gamblers guess, in chorus, at the total number of fingers exposed by the principal players. When twenty lusty Italian workmen shout "Uno! Sei! Tre! Dieci!" at the top of their lungs at the same moment, one can surmise the motives which induced the Government to pass the antigambling law. At the same time, one appreciates how from the morra grew the equally dreaded Camorra, or Black Hand...
Twenty lusty Italian workmen shouting: "Uno! Sei! Tre! Dieci...