Word: rossi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courtroom was packed with a hand-picked Fascist audience. Sitting dully in the iron-barred prisoner's cage, a white-gloved carabineer on either side of him, Cesare Rossi listened while Prosecutor Michele Isgro came quickly to the following peroration...
...Switzerland, a year ago last August, Cesare Rossi was so foolish as to go for a motor ride with an elegant brunette. Their car entered the Italian town of Campione, a town bordered on three sides by Switzerland. Instantly Cesare Rossi was arrested and clapped into jail, charged with high treason...
When a millionaire socialist named Matteotti was brutally murdered by Fascists and his body flung in a ditch (TIME, June 23, 1924), there was a worker in Fascist ranks named "General" Cesare Rossi. He had been a linotype operator under Editor Mussolini and a fervent pedestrian in the historic "March on Rome." In return for his epaulets, Dictator Mussolini apparently expected General Rossi to bear in silence a large part of the responsibility for the Matteotti murder. But at a crucial moment Cesare Rossi refused to keep quiet under blame and figuratively cried "Murderer!" at the man who had made...
Last week General Cesare Rossi, thin, prison-pale, and with a scraggly beard was brought to trial. He was allowed no witnesses...
...interest in connection with Mr. Hofer's donation is the recent publication by the Cygnet Press of a facsimile reprint in Italian of the "Life of St. Jerome" which has been taken from several copies of an edition of his "Letters" printed at Ferrara by Lorenzo de Rossi in 1497 which are now owned by G. P. Winship '93 and Mr. Hofer. The Cygnet Press was founded by Mr. Winshop and Mr. Hofer, both of whom are members of the Signet Club of Harvard. In accordance with its name, the Press has adopted a young swan as its emblem...