Word: porta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this country where one of them, upon being arrested and fined for speeding, has objected to the State Department and received an apology and a refund of the fine. But Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland is a stern man. In Baltimore the car of Count Gian Franco Della Porta, attaché of the Italian Embassy, ran into the automobile of a citizen, one Marks. A policeman came up. The Count paid Mr. Marks $30 and departed. Then he entered a protest to the State Department-asked an apology and his money back, asserting that it had been extorted...
Before the Norman invasion, the Mayor was known as the Portreeve (porta, Latin for gate; reeve, Saxon for chief magistrate of town; of, shirereeve, contracted to sheriff). So strong was the City at this time that the Great Conqueror placed special value on securing its voluntary sanction to his kingship...
Details may be obtained from Avv. Corrado Petrone, President of the Executive Committee, Via della Mercede, 33, Rome, and general information from the representative of the American University Union in Rome, Professor Gorham Stevens, Porta Pancrazio...