Word: rossis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thanked her for coming from Hollywood to sing at this benefit (Girls' Service League, Boys' Club of New York). They found her voice sweet but thin, lost in the vast Polo Grounds. More at home were Mezzo-Soprano Carmela Ponselle (sister of Rosa) and Baritone Giuseppe Martino-Rossi. Soprano Gahagan announced she would return to California at once, sing in Jerome Kern's mellifluous The Cat & the Fiddle...
Martini & Rossi's vermouth advertisement clearly states: "non-alcoholic." What people put into a legal liquid-be it orange juice, ginger ale, milk, water or vermouth -is none of TIME'S business...
...villains the vermouth manufacturing firms of Cinzano, Cora, Gancia, forbade them to manufacture any bottled cocktails labeled MARTINI COCKTAIL or AMERICAN MARTINI COCKTAIL, made them pay the expenses of the trial and appeal, and ordered them to publish advertisements in ten papers to be chosen by triumphant Martini & Rossi, admitting their guilt...
...oldest and best known Italian vermouth houses is the firm of Martini & Rossi. It was established in 1835 in Turin as Martini, Sola & Co. The enterprising Rossis entered the firm in the '60s; the last of the original Martinis withdrew from the company nearly 40 years ago. President of the company is white-haired Count Ernesto Rossi. His nephew, a director of the company, is sleek young Count Teofilo Rossi who was sliding down hills at Lake Placid last week as captain of the Italian Olympic bobsled team...
Several years ago Martini & Rossi, who used to have a virtual monopoly of the export trade in Italian vermouth, received violent competition from the enterprising younger firm of Cinzano. They plastered the billboards and fences of France and Italy with Cinzano posters, cut deep into Martini profits...