Codice albumGBB-F-008203

Codice inventarioGBB-F-008203-0000

1940 ca, New York, USA: Portrait of ex-Fascist publisher and politician GENEROSO POPE (1891-1950). Pope was an Italian-American businessman and the owner of a chain of Italian-language newspapers in major American cities. Pope was the most powerful enemy of anti-Fascism among Italian Americans. He was closely associated with Tammany Hall politics in New York, and his newspapers played a vital role in securing the Italian vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt's Democratic. With his presidential friendships, Generoso was able to make Columbus Day into a national holiday in 1934. He broke with Benito Mussolini in 1941 and supported the American war effort

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