Word: rocco
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...Manhattan Rocco Colonna, 33, unemployed musician, leaped to the tracks in the 42nd Street station of the new $191,200,000 Eighth Avenue Subway, opened two days before. Before a train appeared he was dragged up with a broken...
Premier Benito Mussolini will not drop from his Cabinet Minister of Interior Benito Mussolini. He will drop, according to the announcement last week: Finance Minister Antonio Mosconi; Minister of Justice Alfredo Rocco; Minister of War General Pietro Gazzera; Naval Minister Rear-Admiral Giuseppe Sirianni; Minister of Colonies Emilio de Bono; and even Minister of Communications Count Costanzo Ciano, whose son Galeazzo is the husband of Signor Mussolini's eldest daughter Edda...
...hired champion who defends his client right or wrong-such is the usual concept of a lawyer. Far different was the concept set up in Rome last week by Signor Alfredo Rocco, reverberant-voiced Minister of Justice, drafter of the new Italian Penal Code (TIME...
...eyes of Fascismo," boomed Signor Rocco with an eagle-like fixation of his own terrifying optics, "In the eyes of Fascismo an attorney, even though retained under fee by a client, still owes his first duty to the State! He must hasten Justice and make it sure, even against the wishes or the interests of his client. He must control the exposition of facts related to him by the client and gather the elements of proof into an honored sequence, so that when the trial begins it can move speedily to a decision. There must be no emotional pleading...
...seizes whatever news it can find or rehash, throws an edition into print and out upon the streets ahead of competitors, that edition is a "bulldog" edition. Chicago's Herald & Examiner ("Herex") publishes a "bulldog" edition on Sunday afternoons. Last week this edition carried a story about one Rocco Maggio, badman. "Herex" said Maggio would stand trial next day on a statutory (sex) offense against a 14-year-old girl whom he had since married...