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Proctor Avon pitched eight innings for the Crimson and his place was taken by Campagna in the eighth. The Purple also used two pitchers. Many Crimson runners were left on base, and the team failed to capitalize on Holy Cross' four errors...
Pale, lantern-jawed Chancellor Heinrich Brüning, plump German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius, and millions of swarming grasshoppers descended upon Rome last week. In the Campagna frightened peasants set fire to their fields as black clouds of the insects dropped from the sky, ate wheatfields to the dust and vineyards bare to the stalks, then hopped and whirred away. Gardens were ruined in the city. Streets, roofs and windows were gummy with grasshopper bodies and their brown "tobacco juice...
...Campagna. Potent Manhattan Builder & Wrecker Anthony Campagna (he wrecked the $6,000,000 Clark Mansion on Fifth Avenue) was created a count by Italy's King Yittorio Emanuele...
When his Manhattan plot was sold, in 1927, Buyer Anthony Campagna said: "I would have paid $100,000 more for the property if it had had no house...
...long poured over the Continent its gleaming metal spawn, big Fiats and little Fiats, trim town cars with square lights and snub noses, Baby Fiats that are playthings for South American debutantes, and cars like the huge grey road lizards in which Il Duce speeds from camp to campagna. The Fiat company's ten factories make also tractors, forgings, castings, Diesel engines, electricity; employ 32,000 men; sold 40,000 cars last year; reached gross sales of $50,000,000 and net profits of almost $9,000,000. Last week in Manhattan a syndicate headed by J. P. Morgan...