Word: rossi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smooth-running in Mr. Ickes' pump house, however. With two mayors at opposite ends of the land he was having trouble. Mayor Angelo Rossi of San Francisco had only with difficulty been persuaded to move up from November to September a bond issue referendum to enable San Francisco, with PWA help, to buy the Hetch Hetchy power lines. And Mayor Maurice J. Tobin of Boston was, to Mr. Ickes' way of thinking, being extremely annoying in the matter of Boston's new city hall. Granted $1,125,000 toward this edifice, Mayor Tobin turned it down, instead...
...cart the goods away from the waterfront, inbound cargoes piled up on the San Francisco docks. Warehousemen and longshoremen continued to work but jobs dwindled as the available storage space gradually filled up, and a delegation of longshoremen's wives waited on San Francisco's Mayor Rossi with pleas to end the war. When shippers started to direct cargoes to Oakland and other Bay ports, Beck simply widened his embargo. Outbound freight was not hit so hard because it moves to the docks largely by rail, not trucks...
Previous record was the 5,657 mi. flown in 1933 by Frenchmen Paul Codes & Maurice Rossi from New York...
...Longest: the 5,657 miles from New York to Syria flown by Frenchmen Paul Codos & Maurice Rossi...
...Welch Peel '39, Hubert H. Nexon '37, and Vincent J. Rossi '37 will take the negative view of the subject: "Resolved, That this country should adopt a policy of economic internationalism", while C. E. Irvin, Elbert Cisson, and Herbert Weinberg will speak on the affirmative for Oberlin...