Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Glorified Crime. The Giuliano issue of Oggi was a swift sellout (1,200,000 copies). It had barely hit the streets when the conservative // Tempo accused its rival of "basically indecent" conduct in consorting with a bandit. Embarrassed Minister of Interior Mario Scelba fired Palermo's chief of police, ordered the Mi-Jan police to arrest Meldolesi, Rizza and Editor Rusconi. The charge: "aiding and abetting banditry and glorifying crime...
Close Race. He told the descendants of slaves in the country parishes that P.N.P. socialism would mean a return to slavery. He dared P.N.P. leader Manley to a ?5,000 bet on the election outcome. Manley haughtily brushed off the wager as "racecourse conduct" but the flamboyant challenge helped spread the word that Busta himself had not given up hope. In the last stage of the campaign, he made a dashing foray into Kingston. "The P.N.P. say I have run away," he cried. "Here...
...jokesters would have been surprised by the outcome. Big Businessmen began to feel more & more keenly the reproaches of fellow citizens; they began to worry over something called "bad public relations." By 1922 Hadley was able to say that social pressure rather than law' had changed business conduct...
...finish off Lee. That much any good student of the war knows. What Williams has uncovered in proving his thesis will send many a chagrined professional historian back to the library stacks. No one comes off worse than Major General George B. McClellan, whose reputation, even for his conduct of the disastrous Peninsular Campaign of 1862, had improved under the ministrations of recent historians. Williams makes it hard to believe that "Little Mac" was anything but a stuffed tunic, an ambitious parade-ground dandy whose timidity in combat was close kin to cowardice. In battle, Confederate generals relied on McClellan...