Word: martino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine will have the title of lecturer and three appointments carry the title of professor Pierre Martino, professor of French Languages and Literature at the University of Algiers, is to be Exchange Professor from France for the second semester. Friedrich von der Leyen, from the University of Cologne, is Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture at Harvard for one year from September 1, 1931. Sigurthur Nordal, Professor of Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland at Reykjavik, has come for the academic year as the fifth incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry...
When fire-spitting Prime Minister Mussolini read reports of General Butler's fire-spitting, he got hopping angry. He cabled his Ambassador in Washington, Nobile Giacomo de Martino, as follows: I HAVE NEVER TAKEN AN AMERICAN ON A MOTOR CAR TRIP . . . NEITHER HAVE I RUN OVER A CHILD, MAN OR WOMAN...
...prisoners was the "captain" of the E, Scowman Leonardo San Martino. He told Sanitation Commissioner Charles Hand that his barge was boarded by about 40 buccaneers from The Row, who deposited their contraband, threatened him and his crew with death if there was betrayal. At the E's dock, he said, another band of gunmen made the crew wait all afternoon & evening, finally help unload the liquor...
...speech obviously semiofficial, Nobile Giacomo de Martino, Italian Ambassador to the U. S., spoke of the "failure" of the conference, insisted that his country was not responsible for it. "The London conference has proved disastrous," said he. "You've often heard that Italy aims to promote confidence and world understanding among the nations. This is our lofty...
...Ildebrando Pizzetti, famed Italian composer, and the premiere of his Rondo Veneziano to be played by Conductor Arturo Toscanini after a 13-weeks' absence from the Philharmonic-Symphony. Composer Pizzetti had been widely heralded, his coming sponsored by Conductor and Signora Toscanini, by Italian Ambassador Nobile Giacomo de Martino, Metropolitan Opera Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Mrs. Otto Hermann Kahn, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. His career had been extensively reviewed: Pizzetti is Parma-born, a musical critic, director of the Milan Conservatory, friend of Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio with whom he has collaborated on three operas...