Word: angelo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friction between Toscanini and il Fascismo was too much to be borne. He resigned as director of La Scala. But the blonde Valkyrie carried on, under Director Angelo Scandiani. When he became ill, she substituted ably. Then in June 1930, Director Scandiani died. The Government had suspended La Scala's "Autonomous Corporation," appointed wealthy Senatore Borletti to be Royal Commissioner (dictator) of the opera. Under the supervision of Benito Mussolini, he was empowered to select a new director. He picked Signorina Colombo. The Press raged. People held mass-meetings. A woman? It was unthinkable. But someone sagely pointed out that...
With a $400,000 loan from a friend at the Guaranty Trust, he bought control of the water, light and power company at San Angelo, Texas. By 1927 he controlled properties worth more than $300,000,000 which he sold to the Insull interests. Biggest of these companies was National Public Service Corp.* He then formed Pacific Public Service Co., sold control of it to Standard Oil Co. of California...
Died. William L. Black, 88, sheep raiser, inventor, last surviving charter member of the New York Cotton Exchange; at his ranch near San Angelo, Tex. In the Civil War Mr. Black, then 19, was convicted of piracy, with eight other youths who tried to seize a ship at Panama for the Confederacy...
Publisher Houston Harte of the San Angelo (Tex.) Standard Times and an alumnus of the School for "spirit of pioneering...
...Governor flew over from Lansing to direct the investigation of the murder. From August to last January a special, hand-picked grand jury sifted evidence, some of which later tentled to show that Jerry Buckley had not led a blameless life. The jury indicted Ted Pizzino, Joseph Bommarito and Angelo Livecchi for the murder. All three had been apprehended soon after the killing. Last week, after the trial jury had heard testimony for 34 days and deliberated for 33 hours, a verdict was reached in the Buckley murder case: not guilty. Defendants Livecchi and Pizzino were instantly arrested for other...