Word: calabria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect on foreign opinion, Under-Secretary of State Fulvio Suvich sent a guarded apology to Stockholm. The Press was ordered to make no further reference to the affair but to whoop it up for Sub-Lieut. Tito Minniti, the captured aviator whose decapitation supposedly started the trouble. At Reggio Calabria, the grimy southern town where Minniti was born, flags were half-masted and houses draped in black. Proudly his old Calabrian father cried...
...Press Benito Mussolini is the Benevolent Dictator who sees all, knows all, weighs every complaint and is never wrong. Last week Italian papers reached Manhattan with accounts of the "challenge to Mussolini" flung down by an oldster named Pietro Savio of 25 Via Calabria, Rome...
...secretaries, ONE ENTIRELY UNKNOWN TO THE GREAT MASS OF THE PUBLIC, who came back with the following report to the Duce: 'To Signor Pietro Savio. 72 years of age, born in Turin, ex-contractor, unable to work because of advanced age, now living at 25 Via Calabria, there has been communicated that the bread at 1.30 per kilo was bought by the Duce from the bakery of Antonio Menichini, at No. 78 Via Alessandria...
...same day on Mount Scifarello in Calabria 400 mi. to the south, rangers of the Fascist Forest Militia ended a search for a French Air-Orient liner which disappeared last fortnight en route from Corfu, Greece to Rome. The rangers found two men and a woman, nearly dead of cold, huddled in the snow-covered wreckage of the plane which also sheltered the bodies of the two pilots, three other passengers...
When he walked into "a place that had a big front with a sign 'Money to Loan' and bought a gun for $8," Joe Zangara, 33, native of Calabria, Italy, onetime bricklayer in New Jersey and last week a blurry-minded transient in Miami, thought to himself: "My stomach, it hurts. I hate all Presidents. I kill them." He had pondered the possibility of killing President Hoover until he read, tore out and stuffed in his pocket a newspaper clipping that said President-elect Roosevelt would visit Miami in two days. With the .32-calibre revolver, which...