Word: ferrara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corriere Padano of Ferrara, a minor Fascist organ, founded by Air Marshal Italo Balbo, Governor of Libya, took the crack at Bolshevism for which all Italians were itching: "We are born antiCommunists, and we intend to remain so. We have not an ounce of sympathy for the Bolsheviks, who are tragic buffoons, professional tricksters, models of vulgar bestiality, living monsters serving the most insane and infamous enterprise of subjugation, cruelty and human degredation which universal history can recall...
Italo Balbo was born of prosperous parents June 6, 1896 in the ancient city of Ferrara. A hothead from the first, Italo enlisted at only 19 to fight for Italy during the World War, soon collared medals for "conspicuous valor." When Gabriele d'Annunzio defied the Peace Conference and President Wilson with his quixotic move to seize Fiume and make it Italian, one of the practical young fighters who enabled the poet to succeed in his at first foolhardy, then brilliant coup was Balbo...
...series which started with two games almost thirty years ago, but no one has any expectations of other than the hardest kind of battle. The starting lineup will be, in the main, the one which played the greater part of the Notre Dame game, with the exception of Maurice Ferrara, tackle, who was injured slightly at Baltimore. The squad came out of the Baltimore. The squad came out of the Baltimore tussle in good condition. The tentative eleven announced by Lieutenant Tom Hamilton, Head Coach, early this week, included Miller, center; Soucek and Fike, ends; Case, Schmidt, Ingram, and Antrim...
...Brooklyn. Hirsch Jacobs outgrew sidewalk handball as an outlet for his competitive urge when he was 13. Like many another adolescent in New York's restricted areas, he then achieved a vicarious escape mechanism by raising and training homing pigeons, in partner ship with his Italian neighbor, Charles Ferrara. When representatives of the Jacobs-Ferrara lofts came home first in several pigeon races, the partners turned their thoughts to bigger things. In 1924 they invested in a race horse named Demijohn. This was before Pigeon Fancier Jacobs had ever seen a horse race or even made...
...Venice to study painting by his father, apparently a man of some means, Titian formed an early partnership with Giorgione, soon won profitable city contracts from the Council, who liked him for his frank sensuousness, his Oriental love of color and display, his shrewd business sense. Traveling to Ferrara to see the Duke, Titian would rent a barge and five servants. Going to Ferrara on his own business he used the cheapest cargo boats...