Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house regarded him as a financial wizard who could do no wrong. The News found that the once high-priced Rosa Raisa had lost all that she had, was in straitened circumstances along with such investors as Conductor Giorgio Polacco & wife (Soprano Edith Mason), Conductors Emil Cooper. Egon Pollak. Roberto Moranzoni, Baritone Cesare Formichi, Stage Manager Otto Erhardt...
...Entre Rios, last week. The bullets nipped off leaves & branches, plopped into tree trunks, but not a man did they hit. Twenty-one provincial police went scurrying into the wood, shouting and firing. Fourteen scampered back. When night fell Argentina's "Three Wild Irishmen"-Mario, Eduardo and Roberto Kennedy-still held their wood. In Buenos Aires Dictator-President General Jose Francisco Uriburu pulled his long mustaches and scratched his head. He could not turn over the government to President-elect Augustin Justo with clean hands until the Kennedys were smoked out. ''Trivial and ridiculous fiasco...
...Fascist, devoted Augusto Turati is remarkably mild, even reasonable, conciliatory. He was made secretary general in 1926 to tone down the excesses of his predecessor, Roberto Farinacci, notorious leader of Fascist Selvaggi ("Savages") who blustered about Italy smashing doors, knocking out teeth, kicking pits of stomachs. Today, with the Fascist Party comparatively civilized, there is talk in Rome that Civilizer Turati is perhaps "too mild." His successor is not. Up and down Italy nervous people know that Giovanni Battista Giuriati has metaphorically bashed and smashed from Fiume to the Quirinal. But, "man of iron" though he is, the new secretary...
...because he was in a hurry to fly back to his bride in Mexico City (TIME, July 23. 1928). Col. Pablo Sidar, "The Madman," laughed at bad weather reports and fell into the Caribbean in an attempted flight from Mexico to Buenos Aires (TIME, May 19). Last week Col. Roberto Fierro, cool, cautious, conservative, after days of patient preparation, took off from Roosevelt Field, L. I. and 16 hr. 35 min. later landed on Valbuena Field, Mexico City-first non-stop flight from New York to the Mexican capital.* Mexico was delirious with joy, not alone over the actual feat...