SLSL "A Small Rain"

[Dave Monroe]

He don't know me very well, do he ...

--- Dave Meury <dmeury at lioninc.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm with Freud and Dave Monroe; I don't think
> there's much significance here but ...
 
Au contraire, mon frere ...
 
> The cigar is a de Nobilis (the Nobles?) but despite
> the fancy name, it's a cheap cigar ...

"Palm Cigars. That Different Smoke. 3 for 5 cents. De
Nobili Cigar Company. Long Island City, N.Y."

http://www.the-forum.com/advert/palmcig.htm

"... most Italian American antifascists chose less
public ways to express their convictions. Fascist
police files are filled with reports on individuals
who were under surveillance because they subscribed to
'subversive' literature, made contributions to various
antifascist causes, or simply wrote letters or sent
newspaper clippings critical of the Fascist regime to
friends and relatives back in Italy.  Many opponents
of the Mussolini regime tried to conceal their views
and activities out of a real concern for retribution
by Fascist authorities and U.S. officials. Operating
under diplomatic cover, Fascist police officials
gained information on radicals through a vast network
of informants in the Italian community as well as the
active support of U.S. local, state, federal
authorities and nativist and antiradical
organizations. 17 Prominent Italian American
antifascists had their Italian citizenship revoked and
properties in Italy confiscated. In the case of Arturo
Giovannitti and Pietro Allegra, both U.S. citizens,
high-placed Fascists successfully exerted direct
pressure on their employers in the United States to
have them fired.

[...] 

"In 1930, Metro Goldwyn Mayer in Los Angeles hired
Giovannitti as a translator. Pietro Allegra was
employed by the De Nobili Cigar Factory in New York.
In both cases, Fascist authorities warned that if the
two radicals were not fired, their U.S. employers were
in danger of jeopardizing access to the Italian
market."

http://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/books/gabaccia/ch9.html


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