Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Eastman (Kodaks, philanthropy), signed a contract with the Italian Government agreeing to present $1,000,000 to build and equip a dental dispensary in Rome...
...Sard, executive director of the Schubert Centennial (1928) and the Beethoven Centennial (1927). Touring Europe to enlist help. Organizer Sard broke the news last week in Vienna. He announced as a prominent cooperator Count di San Martino. president of the Augusteo Orchestra and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, who will head the European delegations. Another noble cooperator, the Marquis Tokugawa of Japan, will chairman a Far Eastern Committee. Music Patrons Otto Hermann Kahn and George Eastman will serve on the U. S. board. In conjunction with the festival a technical exposition will be held for manufacturers of instruments...
According to the flyers, Promoter Montgomery, reputedly head of Hadley & Co., made them president and vice president respectively of Airvia and financed their Rome flight for the use of their names. They were each to get $300 a month, 1,000 shares of Airvia before the flight, 4,000 more shares after the flight. To protect the values of their stock they stipulated that Promoter Montgomery sell no Airvia stock publicly for two years. While they were in Europe, Promoter Montgomery began to reave out stock at $8 to $12 a share. For that reason, Messrs. Williams and Yancey...
Much has he traveled, many are the famed people he has met. In Milwaukee, where he has an agency, he headed the Lindbergh reception committee two years ago. The policemen there call him "C. C." Though not feeling well one day in Rome, he won a bet by getting an audience with the Pope on 24-hours' notice. He has hand-shaken Mussolini. He also tells how, slipping into an exclusive London night club, he and Mrs. Younggreen came face to face with Edward of Wales. "My wife," says Mr. Younggreen, "touched the Prince...
Toward evening Babe, Donna & Duce motored inland to spend the birthday night at their rustic farm, the Villa Carpena. Lights were doused early. Next day the dutiful Duce bade his spouse a crisp farewell, sped back to his chosen busy bachelorhood in Rome. There, after buying a red carnation?just now his favorite boutonniére?the Dictator settled down to work, found an appalling piece of work...