Word: rizzo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perfectly a feat to rank with Stephen Decatur's burning of the frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli (1804), William Barker Cushing's torpedoing of the Albemarle in Plymouth, N. C. (1864), Commander M. E. Nasmith's penetration of the Dardanelles with the submarine E11 (1916), Commander Luigi Rizzo's sneak shot from a motorboat with a torpedo into the Austrian battleship Szent-Istvan at Trieste...
...Italy has cruisers (21 in commission, twelve abuilding) that are among the fastest in the world, a big destroyer and submarine fleet, plus mosquito-boats manned by daredevils, all of which makes Italy an ugly foe to fight in the western Mediterranean. Hero of the Italian navy is Rizzo, motorboat commander who sank an Austrian dreadnought in the World War 21 years ago. June 10, the anniversary of that day will be celebrated throughout Italy as Navy...
Davidson and Rizzo, of Tome: Page, of St. George's; Brown, of Horace ki, of Rindge Tech, are among last Mann; Merrill, of Exeter, and Rockie year's point-winners returning. In addition, breastroker Warner Pach, of Exeter; backstroker Charlie Kilvert and free-styler Bandy Sharp, of St. George's are expected to provide plenty of competition...
...Army captain obligingly paid the other 15?. Fiore Rizzo marched into the Army Building and announced that he was ready to go to work in the woods. He was, he said, 19, single, one of a family of 13 and had been unemployed for a year. His father had not had work in three years. An Army doctor listened to Fiore's heart, thumped his chest, looked down his throat, passed him as physically fit. Fiore Rizzo signed a blank authorizing the Government to pay $25 of his $30 monthly wage to his family, swore a 250-word oath...
...enlistment for six months of Fiore Rizzo and 24,999 more citizens like him last week was President Roosevelt's first direct attack upon ranks of 13,000,000 unemployed. By authority of last fortnight's relief act, he issued an order creating the C. C. C. and providing it with $10,000,000 as a starter. Appointed Director of Emergency Conservation Work (salary: $10,200) was Robert Fechner, 57. of Massachusetts, a vice president of the International Association of Machinists. The selection of this tall, austere Laborite...