Word: amedeo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Highness Prince Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Aosta, 39, and cousin of King-Emperor Vittorio Emanuele III, was appointed by Benito Mussolini last week to be Viceroy of Ethiopia, replacing bomb-wounded Marshal Rodolfo Graziani (TIME, March i, April...
First of the Italian trio was a trimotored Savoia-Marchetti piloted by Lieut.-Commander Samuele Cupini and Captain Amedeo Paradisi, who covered the 3,800 miles in 17½ hours at an average of 219 m.p.h. Co-pilot of the third Italian ship, only half-hour behind, was none other than Lieutenant Bruno Mussolini, thickset second son of Il Duce. On his account, the crowds at Le Bourget had all been carefully frisked by police before admission. With scrupulous politeness and notable lack of enthusiasm, they applauded as each plane landed. That night the Paris press gave Pierre...
...usual King Vittorio Emanuele lived in his "World's Most Luxurious Royal Train" during the week of maneuvers, while Il Duce dashed about at the wheel of his car. As the games opened the "Red Army" under General Amedeo Guillet drove before it the "Blue Army" of Crown Prince Umberto. This was described as a "strategic retreat" and few doubted that His Royal Highness would regain the offensive with success against General Guillet, an officer insufficiently known to the Italian people to make his army's fate of national interest...
...Dartmouth College. Last week she gave most of the rest to the Museum of Modern Art. There were 181 water colors, drawings and a few paintings by 71 men and women, including Peter Blume, Alexander Brook, Charles Burchfield, André Derain, John Kane the housepainter (see above), Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso. Said the Museum's President, A. Conger Goodyear: "Next to the bequest of Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Mrs. Rockefeller's gift is the most important one that the Museum has received...
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...