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Should all else fail Power of Trinity, there is always his resourceful consort and coruler, Empress Waizeru Menen. Some years ago when Italy's sporting Duke of the Abruzzi visited Abyssinia, leaving behind him a gift war tank, he little realized what the present Empress would do with it. Her husband had been imprisoned in Abyssinia's Royal Palace by the then Empress Zauditu. Commandeering the tank, faithful Waizeru Menen sent it crashing through the Palace gates, rescued her husband. A woman of the world, Her Majesty journeyed with maximum pomp to Jerusalem two years ago (TIME...
...aftershocks in Baffin Bay. In Panama, 17 shocks disrupted communications, shook clown a few ramshackle houses, scared natives. The third day, the Lindberghs, asleep in the Azores, were roused at 3 a. m. by more shocks. The fourth day there were temblors in Portland, Ore., in Italy's Abruzzi region on the Adriatic Sea. At last on the fifth day old Mother Earth seemed to have calmed down...
P.B.H.: Hershon, r.e.; Tobin, r.t.; Jacobs, r.g.; Abruzzi, c.; Mann, l.g.; Green, l.t.; Soroker, l.e.; Corcoran, q.b.; LeRoy, O'Connor, h.b.; Bautze...
Died. Luigi Amedeo Giuseppe Maria Ferdinando Francesco. Duke of the Abruzzi, Prince of Savoy, 60, cousin of Italy's King Vittorio Emmanuele, onetime (1915-17) commander-in-chief of Italy's navy, 1932 president of the merged Italia Line; of arteriosclerosis; in Abruzzi City, Italian Somaliland, Africa. During the War his fleet saved the Serbian Army, fighting hopelessly with its back to the sea. In 1922 Albania offered him its throne...
Marquis Federico Negrotto Cambiaso, member of a potent old Genoa family, was elected president of Benito Mussolini's Italia Line, succeeding His Royal Highness Prince Luigi of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi, who resigned (TIME, Oct. 24) With the replacement of all but two directors and the appointment of a new general manager, this step completed the long-awaited reorganization of Il Duce's great shipping line...