Word: eugenio
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...Momi's years of service, the towermen could remember her making only one misstep-that terrible time when, by accident, she stepped on a signal button on the tower control panel and brought a fast express screeching to a stop on the tracks below. Tower Master Eugenio Olivieri picked Momi up by the scruff of the neck that day and threw her out of the window, but Momi, battered and limping, returned...
...highly placed politicians and businessmen, have not been able to attar] him openly as they have attacked Father Hogan. (Said a Manila newspaperman "They would be fighting the Pope him self.") Fortnight ago, however, after thi archbishop had left for Rome on a visit they had their first try. Eugenio Lopez publisher of the Manila Chronicle and ; wealthy friend of Figueras', editorially accused Vagnozzi of "arrogence and condescension" toward the Philippine government. Next day, in the Philippini Congress, Representative Estanislao Fernandez introduced a resolution calling for the recall of Vagnozzi for his "notoriously unsympathetic attitude toward the Filipino people...
...American Way. In a democracy, representatives are representative; and the Philippine Congress inhaled the general air of corruption. House Speaker Eugenio Perez, boss of the Liberal Party, became chief of the spoils system. Party funds, for which no accounting is required, are in his keeping. To win votes, he has at his disposal precious Chinese immigration visas to distribute among his congressional colleagues, each of them worth $2,000 to $3,000 at the nearest cafe. When the Commissioner of Customs recently tried to cut expenses by firing 180 excess employees, he was bombarded into retreat by the protests...
...Less. All over Colombia and all around Latin America, U.S. businessmen were running into this sort of competition from Europe. In Caracas, Importer Eugenio Mendoza explained that he had stopped buying U.S. structural steel because Belgian, German and Luxembourg firms were offering him the same goods for $40 less than the $104-a-ton U.S. price. In Chile, the national airlines ordered British De Havilland transports. Salvadorean textile men found they could buy Italian rayon fiber for io/ a Ib. less than the U.S. article. In Lima's streets, women wore British nylons...
...Left. Within seconds, rival partymen were hard at it. The Reds' thick-nosed Milanese Labor Leader Gaetano Invernizzi made a flying leap from the top of the Communist benches into the heart of enemy territory. He was promptly kicked in the skull by potbellied Veronese Sculptor Eugenio Spiazzi. "Session adjourned!" screamed the chamber's President Giovanni Gronchi, jangling his bell madly...