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Word: almerindo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's WOR on the eve of Flag Day, was designed to appeal to Americans of Italian ancestry. Main speakers: two Italian urchins from Greenwich Village (one planned to exercise his U. S. freedom of initiative to become a prizefighter) and Italian-born New York City Treasurer Commendatore Almerindo Portfolio, who rose from a $2-a-week messenger to the presidency of the Bank of Sicily and the head of a cloak & suit concern (which in 1924 he gave to six employes). Commendatore Portfolio's talk was rapturous, anti-nobody, fairly brief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cause | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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