Word: vito
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Front" was tentatively pieced together by Venezuela's three foremost political leaders: Rómulo Betancourt, 49, president of a semimilitary government from 1945 to 1948 and head of the left-wing Democratic Action Party; Rafael Caldera, 41, leader of the Copei (Christian Social) Party; and Jóvito Villalba, 49, head of the middle-of-the-road Republican Democrat ic Union. Together, the three politicians framed a plan for a period of mutually shared noncompetitive politics to avoid the possibility of partisan political strife that could open a way for the return of dictatorial control...
...Professor, was responsible for a variety of functions. He had once been an instructor at New York University in the philosophy of education. The Professor became private tutor to the children of only the best gangsters, e.g., Squillante's godfather Albert Anastasia, Willie and Salvatore Moretti, Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese. (He taught "Socrates to the moderns," but not Machiavelli, he added thoughtfully, "because the philosophy of the end justifying the means is immoral.") This duty followed long after the time he was jailed on separate occasions for practicing medicine without a license and grand larceny...
...theft occurred between nine and eleven in the morning in the suite inhabited by Robert A. Derrow '57, Robert A. de Vito '57, and Darcy B. Wilson '58. Only clothing was removed; eight dollars lying loose in a desk drawer was untouched...
...Vito discovered the theft when he returned from his morning classes to find the hall door wide open. It had been left unlocked. On entering the room, he noticed that his bureau drawers had been opened and that two new shirts and a new sweater had been removed. His roommates checked and reported that they were missing a topcoat, three sweaters, a sports coat, a pair of slack, and possibly some shirts...
...substantial credit for effectively silencing McCarthy, and yet Nixon's first campaign was a miniature of McCarthy's tactics. And in 1950, in his successful race for the Senate against Helen Gahagan Douglas, Nixon hid his own record by showing that his opponent had voted 353 times with Representative Vito Marcantonia, and was therefore "soft on Communism." Nixon failed to point out that on most of these votes Marcantonia was merely going along with the Democratic majority, and that on a key issue like Nixon's vote against economic aid to Korea five months before the attack, he had himself...