Word: balbo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Gershwin will play the piano while his friend William Daly conducts; also a Negro night when the premiere of a symphony by Florence B. Trice will be played and the soloists will be Tenor Roland Hayes and stocky 19-year-old Pianist Margaret Bonds. When General Italo Balbo and his 24 aviators arrive from Italy they will be given a special performance of Aïda. Hero of the World's Fair concerts is grey-haired Conductor Frederick August Stock who is giving his services. The opening night was sweltering hot but Conductor Stock seemed unmindful...
Loyola University (Chicago, Ill.) Commander Italo Balbo, Italy's Air Minister, leading an Italian air squadron to the World's Fair (in absentia) LL.D...
Meantime at Orbetello, Italy, General Italo Balbo was tuning up 24 Fascist seaplanes to fly over in style. Transshipped to Montreal and reassembled, England's famed London-Edinburgh express, the Royal Scot, complete with new paint, shiny brasses and fresh-scrubbed stewards, exhibited itself to 3,000 an hour in New York before touring leisurely out to Chicago. Mexico City was polishing up a special Presidential train to bear the famed Monte Alban jewels to Chicago's Fair. From Japan to Chicago had come a national exhibit filling 17 freight cars...
...years later Hero de Pinedo was a general, chief of staff for Italian aviation, leading squadron flights in which one pilot was hot-blooded Italo Balbo, then Undersecretary for Air. Everywhere they went, de Pinedo was the hero. But no Italian youth in his right mind who knew Italo Balbo would have then wanted "to become a de Pinedo." Balbo learned that the forgotten $26,000 was still in the bank and that de Pinedo had been accepting $20 a week interest on the money. A word to Il Duce, a telephone call to de Pinedo: "Your resignation as Chief...
...extraordinary plans. Single-handed he would fly from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. to "some point in Asia," breaking by 1,000 mi. the 5,126 mi. non-stop distance record held by Great Britain. Shrewdly, he timed his flight to steal some of the thunder of Italo Balbo's squadron flight to the U. S. next month. He got big headlines by describing his unusual preparations for the ordeal of flying solo two days and a half...