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Until last week nobody considered "Jimmy" Walker a quitter. Even after he turned out to be the first Mayor of New York to resign under fire, hundreds of thousands of citizens refused to think the worst of him. Radio Crooner Morton Downey, Publisher Generoso Pope (Il Progresso-Italo-Americano) and Theatre Man Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal were among the first to rush to his flower-filled Mayfair apartment on Park Avenue where he was lolling around in blue silk pajamas and assure him that, even out of office, he was still "the greatest fellow on earth...
...Generoso Pope, the Manhattan sand & gravel tycoon who has bought up all but one of New York City's Italian-language daily newspapers (TIME, Sept. 14), potent in city politics and proud in the possession of three decorations from Benito Mussolini...
Twenty-seven years ago, aged 12, Generoso Pope had a job in Manhattan painting pianos at $3 a week. He had come to the land of opportunity from Italy. Twenty years later successful Mr. Pope owned Colonial Sand & Stone Co. which he believes is now the world's largest. Then he started buying up New York's Italian-language daily and Sunday newspapers. First he bought Il Progresso...
...Nuovo Mundo, Labor and anti-Fascist organ (circulation: 32,000). Publisher Pope's reasons for his purchases: ''To hold together the Italian colony in the United States. ... To prevent out side interests getting hold of these mediums . . . possibly to cause dissension later." With his near-monopoly, Generoso Pope, sandman, contractor, publisher, is indeed a man to be reckoned with in the politics and contracts of New York City...
...they had been able to get away from their research at the University of Berlin. In lieu of their presence, they sent a report, read by Dr. Alexander Goetz of Caltech, which caused much amazement. In 1927 the two first rigged a wire between two peaks at Monte Generoso, near the Italian-Swiss border. That is a region of frequent and violent thunderstorms. Like Benjamin Franklin, the Germans intended to bring lightning to earth. When the rigging was set and lightning bolted, the emitted sparks jumped a 15-ft. gap. Improved rigging carried lightning sparks which spanned 55 ft. That...