Word: antonio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...controls ten oil companies and pipelines, a Cincinnati soap factory, two Texas waterworks, sizable chunks of five Rio Grande Valley banks, two small newspapers, bus systems in Austin and Waco, a San Antonio wholesale house, a silverware factory in Mexico, an inland waterway barge line, the Dixie Bus Lines, a Dallas chili plant, and 22% of Henry Holt & Co., Inc., Manhattan book publishers...
Although Mexicans make up half of San Antonio's population of 253,854, they have taken little part in the civic life of the city. The Mexicans, segregated on the West Side, have been virtually ignored by the rest of San Antonio's citizens. One who did not ignore them was short (5 ft. 6 in.), good-natured Gaetano Anthony Lucchese, 50, son of a Sicilian immigrant. When Tano Lucchese was 17, his father* sent him to the West Side to manage the old Zaragoza theater. Lucchese liked the movie business; he also liked and understood Mexicans. They...
Lucchese's idea of the best was a four-story, $1,250,000 foreign-trade center in San Antonio, called Casa de Mexico. In the center he planned a 2,500-seat movie theater, a penthouse with bar and lounge and, in the wings, offices for firms engaged in U.S.-Mexican trade...
...letter addressed to two sisters who ran a china shop. To them he pleaded: "Just one concert let me give." They helped dig up money and musicians. Four weeks later Max Reiter conducted his first U.S. performance, with a makeshift Waco Symphony. San Antonio heard about it and invited him to form an orchestra there...
Last week, kindly, bustling Max Reiter was back in Manhattan as guest conductor of the ABC Symphony Orchestra. In eight years in San Antonio, he had turned 40 homespun musicians into a smoothly functioning symphony of 78 pieces. Among the treasures in his new scrapbook: U.S. citizenship, a letter from the maestro he had once trembled before in Milan. Wrote Toscanini, after hearing a Reiter broadcast: "A fine performance, which is a thing that does not happen very often even with famous orchestras and widely publicized conductors...