Word: rossi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Count Teofilo Rossi Di Montelera, 67, onetime Italian Minister of State, head of famed firm of Martini & Rossi, vermouth manufacturers ; at Turin...
...intensity of earthquakes is measured by what is called the Rossi Foucel scale," said Professor Mather. "This scale is based upon the amount of damage done by an earthquake, 10 representing complete destruction and 1 representing an imperceptible tremor. The degrees between these extremes are measured according to whether chimneys are toppled, the amount of vibration felt by people, and so forth. The earthquake in Concord was probably about intensity 4, enough to frighten people...
...racing motorboat skimmed into the harbor of Nice. Pressmen rushed to greet it and hailed its principal passenger as an escaped turncoat Fascist who would now reveal the truth about Mussolini. ^ They were not disappointed. General Cesare Rossi, formerly head of the Fascist Press Bureau, stepped from the motorboat and told a thrilling tale of his "escape" from Rome by motor car in the dead of night to Genoa, where he was picked up by the motorboat, chartered on behalf of a Paris newspaper which is to print his revelations...
Observers awaited with attention the important information which General Rossi can undoubtedly release at Paris, if he chooses to replace vivid sensationalism with matter of demonstrable pith...
...Public Prosecutions took the final step which liberated these men, all of whom are intimates of Premier Mussolini. Forth from 18 months of imprisonment came Giuseppe Marinelli, onetime Treasurer of the Fascist Party, and was at once appointed its General Inspector of Administration. He and his co-prisoners, Cesare Rossi and Filippo Filippelli, were lauded by the Fascist press as "heroes," and their release was touted as "a great victory for truth...