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Word: antonios (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little Caesar. Giving orders in New York gangdom was one unwieldy bird named Antonio Corallo, known to cronies and cops as Tony Ducks-a title bestowed in praise of his ability to avoid convictions on all but two of his twelve arrests since 1929. A beefy, movie-style heavy, Tony Ducks keeps no bank accounts, buys no property in his own name, often meets his confederates at 5 a.m. (to avoid detection), assigns one of his boys to tail any detective found to be tailing Tony Ducks. One employer, said Committee Counsel Kennedy, hired Tony Ducks just to come into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Hot Cargo | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

...prim Don Pedro. As Claudio, Richard Easton is better in comic moments than in serious ones; but he is developing nicely as an actor and shows good potential. Hero has little to do but look beautiful, which Lois Nettelton has no trouble in doing. Morris Carnovsky is a delightful Antonio as he hiphops about in a fussy, ineffectual manner...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Much Ado About Nothing | 8/8/1957 | See Source »

Back in 1948, the year Czechoslovakia lost its freedom, some of Europe's intellectual Communists got cinders in their starry eyes, but Antonio Giolitti just blinked. To a friend troubled by Soviet tyranny he wrote: "Don't lose your spirit. Remember, liberty is not everything." Slim and younger looking than his 42 years, Antonio Giolitti bears one of Italy's biggest political names. His Liberal grandfather was five times Premier of pre-Mussolini Italy, and it is still remembered that "under Giolitti 100 lire in paper was worth 101 in gold." Young Antonio, brought up under Fascism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Only Sentimental Importance | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

Last week Togliatti summoned Giolitti to Rome for disciplining. But. his starry eyes opened at last. Antonio Giolitti stuck to his grandfather's mansion and chose liberty. Unable to change the party, he left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Only Sentimental Importance | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

...started in 1946 when business-minded Miguel Aleman became President of Mexico, named Antonio Bermudez, a wealthy whisky distiller, to head Pemex. Bermudez cracked down on graft and featherbedding, stepped up exploration. By 1951, production was twice that of 1938; last year the nation's wells produced 94.1 million bbl. Geologists and oil engineers, trained at the University of Mexico, directed a wildcatting program, using 146 drilling rigs, that brought in 18 new fields out of 84 tries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Serving the Nation | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

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