Word: rossi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...named Henry F. Budde. Little Mr. Budde is the publisher of some weekly throwaways ("You can't cancel your subscription, he'll just throw it in your goddam living room") and a paper for municipal employes. He had been a salaryless park commissioner under Mayor Angelo Rossi; Lapham did not reappoint him. More recently Budde had tried to start a "Dimes for Manila" drive; Lapham had declined to push it. Perky Mr. Budde reacted with the fury of a pinto with a burr under its tail. He circulated a petition for a vote to boot out such...
...Duke") Hedman, who had shot down six Japs, and had flown the Hump 350 times, had an unemployed $10,000. Joe Rosbert (six Jap planes), who once crashed in the Himalayas and walked out in 46 days, threw in $10,000, took a job as chief pilot. J.R. ("Dick") Rossi, also a six-plane man, got his letter in India after his 600th Hump crossing. Wrote Prescott: "Rossi, put that drink in your left hand and tell me what you're doing." Rossi joined...
...York Congressman got a letter from a constituent who complained that his corporal always woke up the whole hut when he had to rouse one soldier. "Sir," concluded the constituent, "I would like to have someone do something about him." Autobiographer. In Wethersfield, Conn., Nicholas A. Rossi, a writer of mur der mysteries, was executed for murder...
...Monday, June 9, 1924, Dumini asked me for a car for three or four days. He told me it would be used by some of his friends and that I would be doing something which would give pleasure to Rossi [Fascist Press Chief] and Marinelli [then Economic Secretary of the Fascist party]. . . . I agreed that Dumini should use a car that I hired...
...boxes of aspirin, and the latest edition of Watch-Bill Drafting Made Easy. . . . Mr. Flanigan: Bottle of Kreml, giant size. . . . Mr. Wires: a new call sign. . . . to Hopf and Peachie (the Mighty Mite): free and unrestricted access to sick bay, provided they haven't taken quarters there first. . . . Elemendo Rossi: (lately hitched) a copy of Cl to occupy his off-hours and weekends. . . . To Long: our notes, assiduously compiled in radio engineering. . . . McCarthey: Recommendations for a staff billet. . . . Newnam: a calendar to be used on his next leave. . . . Mr. Glennon: an unexpurgated copy of "Gertie from Bizerte" for classroom...