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...from Banca Agricola Italiana half a billion lire ($26,300,000), which resulted in an eventual loss to the bank of seven times its capital. No charge was made against Financier Gualino when he was seized last week. His arrest was made not by police but by the Turin Fascist "political squadron." His name was not inscribed on the jail register, only his initials, "R. G.," and the laconic explanation: "For motives of public securitv." Presumably Fascist higher-ups are involved, and in such cases the "purging" (as it is called in Italy) is always accomplished in profound silence...
...minority of one. Congressman John E. Nelson of Maine, disagreed with the Red picture of his colleagues, decried the "hysteria" over Communism, declared: ''Our best defense against the red shirt of the Communist and the black shirt of the Fascist is the blue shirt of the American workingman...
...prominent actress for preferring another man to her husband and proving it, is all but unknown in Italy-or anywhere else. But throughout Italy last week the encyclical of Pope Pius XI covering all forms of amorous activity (TIME, Jan. 19) produced startling results. A national crusade to promote "Fascist Morality" began. Doctors were arrested by the dozen on charges of extinguishing the unborn, pharmacies were raided for contraceptives, the notorious cliques of unnatural persons in Venice, Naples, Capri, were put under investigation, and at Florence prominent, popular Actress Wanda Orlandini was sentenced to three months in jail. True...
Sponsored by wealthy Fascist patrons- Poet Virgilio Fiorentino has just produced an epic of 20,000 verses "priced at 12,980 lire ($675) the set, handsomely bound and illustrated." Title: Twenty-Seven Songs of the Fascist Revolution. At the rate of one song (volume) per month, the 27 volumes will appear during the next three and a quarter years, subscribers paying by the volume (month...
Last week as Vol. I, Song i, came hot off the Pincianan Press, patriotic Fascist editors were not long in agreeing that Virgilio Fiorentino, "a young poet of Fascist Italy which is also young," is an authentic genius, will eventually rank with oldsters Homer, Virgil, Dante...