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Taylor's great great grandfather knew where the bodies were buried

Charles Carmine Antonio Baldi, King of Little Italy

A.D. Amorosi

Philadelphia’sCharles Carmine Antonio Baldi empireis revered in a new book by Charles G. Douglas, III, Esq.

In his time, Charles Carmine Antonio Baldi – C.C.A. Baldi – was an Italian immigrant entrepreneur and community leader who arrived inSouth Philly in 1876,and took over. He founded a coal yard with its own mine in Schuykill County, opened an insurance and real estate business, organized a savings and loan bank, operated the only Italian daily newspaper L’Opinone,started the Baldi Funeral Homeon South 8th Street, all by the turn of the century, and brought his brothers from Italy into the bourgeoning businesses in Philly.

All of that alone is worth a book, and family member and former Philadelphian Charles G. Douglas, III, Esq. is just the man to do it in the newly-published Philadelphia’s King of Little Italy.

The Baldi family tree has deep run roots and its connections to the present, such as having his Green Street home in Manayunk named on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places in 2017. Even more exceptional when you consider thatthe late C.C.A. is Reading, PA-born pop star Taylor Swift’s great-great-grandfather on her father’s side,as well as being a second cousin to author Douglas, III, Esq.

The same Taylor Swift is getting ready to release her new album, Midnights, on October 21. Perfect timing.

Do not buy the book looking for family gossip about Taylor Swift.

Do buy the book if you are looking to read about how the Baldis and the Jacovini families, who own Broad Street’s Pennsylvania Burial Company and Baldi Funeral Home, married to create a larger funereal dynasty (and with the Jacovinis got another celebrity connection, to Norristown-born actress Maria Bello), how Baldi helped to establish Columbus Day as a national holiday in the United States, how he helped to raise money for the candidacies of Presidents William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Howard Taft, and was responsible for reducing literacy requirements for naturalization, all of which combined for the C.C.A. Baldi Middle School in Northeast Philadelphia to be named for him in 1976.

Abondanza.

https://www.dosagemagazine.com/charles-carmine-antonio-baldi-king-of-little-italy/

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>Taylor's great great grandfather knew where the bodies were buried

Baldi ran an Italian language newspaper

L’Opinione

Charles Carmine Antonio Baldi (December 2, 1862 – December 28, 1930) was an American merchant, banker, newspaper publisher, entrepreneur and philanthropist who lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1] He immigrated from Italy at age 14 and pursued a career that gained him recognition in the early 1900s as a prominent leader among the growing population of Americans citizens of Italian descent. Baldi further achieved strong relationships with the existing American political and business communities in the greater Philadelphia area that developed from his business enterprises, which included social and philanthropic organizations that centered around supporting the lifestyle of Italian immigrant people to attain improved economic status and preserve traditional cultural heritage while living in the United States of America.

Early life

Carmine Antonio Baldi was born 1862 in Castlenuovo, Cilento, the Providence of Salerno Italy. As a boy in Italy, he first distinguished himself by helping to write letters for the peasant women of his town to their relatives in America. Young Carmine would learn by reading about America in the letters coming back in response and was reasoned why he became fascinated with the life in America. He immigrated from Italy to Philadelphia Pennsylvania at age 14 with his Father and 12-year old brother. Later he changed his name to "Charles Carmen Antonio Baldi" and adopted the “C.C.A. Baldi” naming convention.

Career

His first start-up business in America was a push cart fruit stand that rose to notoriety by skillfully cornering the local wholesaling and retailing market selling lemons. This successful enterprise provided revenue to invest in other ventures and he began to manage for profit job contracts with the railroads to employ Italian immigrants who needed to be employed in a job for them to come to America and also facilitated their acquiring basic needs for housing and other services.

He organized a bank, the First Italian Exchange Bank, so immigrant workers could save their money and send money back to relatives in Italy.He owned and operated the largest daily Italian language newspaper L'Opinione from 1906-1930[2] that provided job openings, news of the day in both America and Italy. It later incorporated into the Italian language daily newspaper under Il Progresso Italo-Americano that began in 1906 as L'Opinione, and was published until 1989. Baldi founded an anthracite coal yard supply Company C.C.A. Baldi & Brothers Co Inc. based on experience the brothers had with mining operations and the need to supply an environmentally clean home heating fuel to replace wood. Additionally, Baldi operated a real estate and insurance business catering to Italian immigrant workers and founded a charity organization The Italian Federation of Charitable Societies while providing a leadership role in a worker society Mutuo Soccorso di SanBiagio (St. Blase Mutual Relief Society). His early letter writing provided him language skills and he provided interpreter services for Italian-speaking people for the Courts of Philadelphia. He established and operated a funeral home Baldi Funeral Home dedicated to servicing Italian Americans families that has carried his family name for over four generations in South Philadelphia.[3] His interest in politics and education lead him to be appointed to School District of Philadelphia Board of education and served on that board until his death in 1930.

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>Baldi ran an Italian language newspaper

>L’Opinione

search for the newspaper, and a hit comes up for a dissertation about Italian Anarchists in London during the timeframe 1870-1914. Baldi emmigrated to Philadelphia in 1876. I suspect some of the Anarchists went to Philly.

> https://core.ac.uk/reader/54430

Then in another search hit, his newspaper is described asFascist supporting

As in New York City, Philadelphia was home to a number of fascist-supporting Italian-language newspapers, which includedL’Opinioneand LaLibre Parola.L’Opinionehad been established in 1906 by Charles C. A. Baldi Sr., a banker, undertaker, and real estate holder in Philadelphia. As Philadelphia’s only Italian-language daily at the time,L’Opinionewas tasked with the responsibility of serving a “socially stratified community made up of professionals, common laborers, clothing and radio factory workers.”66The weekly newspaper, La Libre Parola,was established in 1917 by Italian born journalist, Arpio Giuseppe Di Silvestro, as the official organ of the Pennsylvania Grand Lodge of the mutual aid organization,the Order of Sons of Italy. After his death in 1927, his son, Anthony Di Silvestro, inherited the paper. Theovert pro-fascist attitudeof both papers isevident in a number of its articles. For example, both papers showed their support to Italy’s involvement in Ethiopia.67As well, upon Italy’s entrance into the Second World War on Germany’s side, both papers “espoused Mussolini’s assertion that Italy had declared war on France and Great Britain because these former allies in World War One were determined to check Italy’s alleged illegitimate development.”68As the fighting in Europe began, they both celebrated the Italian army’s early victories in France. Both papers also took on the anti-American sentiments of fascism. Thiscan be seen in a June 1st, 1932, L’ Opinionearticle

> https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/stream/pdf/52966/1.0383239/5

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>Charles Carmine Antonio Baldi, King of Little Italy

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These attitudes were not exclusive to those who wrote for the papers: in a letter to the editor of L’Opinione, an anonymous Italian American reader agreedthat “almost all-American politicians were unqualified sponges.”72The pursuit of such fascist interests placed editors in an adversarial position with the American political parties they were to represent, as they discouraged Italian-Americans from registering to vote in American elections.Baldi Sr. the owner of L’Opinione,was a broker ofthe Philadelphia Republican Machine within the city’s Italian American community. While a key pillar of the Republican party in Philadelphia was the defense of American protectionist legislation, as it suited the industrial interests of the state,Baldi took on the stance ofthe Italianfascist government in 1929,which wanted free trade. Against his parties’ wishes, he led an unsuccessful campaign against

the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill, legislation proposed by a senator from Pennsylvania, which would increase duties to an all-time high for exports. In this campaign, L’Opinioneurged readers to “threaten their congressmen with an electoral rebuff unless they vote down the bill.”73In addition to newspapers, religious organizations alsoreflectedthe reactionof Italian Americans in both Philadelphia and New York City to rising fascism in Italy. In Italy itself, with few exceptions, the Italian catholic clergy supported fascism, a support that had only increased after 1929 with the Lantern Pact, which had resolved outstanding issues between Mussolini and the Pope. This pattern extended to New York City, Philadelphia, and the United States as whole, where the American Catholic hierarchies “bestowed [their] blessing on Mussolini and his works.”74This was seen especially in Italian American parishes, where the support for fascism could be heardin sermons, religious celebrations, societies, and parochial schools. In New York City in 1943, when Msgr. Stephen H. Donahue was appointed auxiliary bishop of New York City, the fascist Il Carroccioregarded the event “with the most respectful friendship and most heartfelt devotion” as he [Msgr. Donohue] was a friend of the Italians/fascists.”75

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another source:

the climate of terror created by anti-radical hysteria undoubtedly encouraged Italians to distance themselves from “un-American” radical values and to embrace conservatism. Unlike radicalism, fascism with its emphasis on “order, discipline, and work” appeared to be very much within the mainstream of American conservative values and was therefore generally tolerated. As Mussolini increasingly gained international prestige, Italian Americans, wrote Diggins, “could not help but to look on with a new sense of pride and self-respect.”39 The power base of Mussolini’s Italian American “empire” was the institutional infrastructure of the immigrant community. The press, consulate, schools, clubs, radio programs, and social and cultural organizations—all succumbed to the influence of Mussolini’s regime, becoming de facto transmission belts of fascist propaganda. The press in particular provided Mussolini with an enormous source of support. Almost 90 percent of the Italianlanguage newspapers published in the United States—basically all except the radical papers—were philo-fascist or overtly fascist. The two most influential organs were Il Progresso Italo-Americano of New York, owned by Generoso Pope, the millionaire president of the Colonial Sand & Cement Company, and L’Italia of San Francisco, published by Ettore Patrizi. Other important newspapers included Il Corriere d’America and Il Bolletino della Sera, both published in New York and also owned by Pope;L’Opinione of Philadelphia; L’Italia of Chicago; and La Voce del Popolo Italiano of Cleveland.40 Mussolini found an especially powerful ally in the class of Italian American prominenti who controlled the power structure of the colonie italiane, including the press. Traditionally conservative, nationalistic, and anti-labor, they did not hesitate to side with Mussolini, even though only a few of them—most notably Luigi Barzini, Agostino de Biasi, and Giovanni Di Silvestro—belonged to actual fascist organizations. Fascism in their eyes represented patriotism and nationalism against the “anti-Italian” forces of socialism, communism, and anarchism; as such, it served well their economic and political interests. Working in unison with the American political world on the one hand, and Mussolini’s emissaries on the other, they used fascism to advance their own self-interests and to promote sentiments and values designed to create consensus and marginalize their radical adversaries.41

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Descendants

Baldi was the father of five sons and two daughters:

Dr. Frederick. S. Baldi, medical director of the Philadelphia County prisons and former president of the Philadelphia County Medical Society;

Vito M. Baldi;

Charles Carmine Antonio Baldi Jr., member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the Second District;

Joseph F.M. Baldi, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the Fourteenth District;

Virgil Baldi;

Rose Baldi; and

Louise Baldi Douglas (1896-1976), married to Charles Gwynn Douglas (1891-1959), 3 children.

Charles Gwynn Douglas Jr., married Betsy Graham

Chuck Douglas, former United States Representative from New Hampshire and a former New Hampshire Supreme Court associate justice

Louise Douglas Turner

Rose Baldi Douglas Swift, married Archie Dean Swift Jr., 3 children

Archie Dean Swift III

Douglas Swift

Scott Kingsley Swift, married Andrea Gardner Finlay, 2 children

Taylor Swift

Austin Swift

Pop music artist Taylor Swift revealed that C.C.A. Baldi was her great-great-grandfather.[8] His great-grandson, Chuck Douglas, wrote a book about his life.[9]

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>something for the planefags to watch

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