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...tough with Congress, despite the fact that the legislation waiting for his signature was pitifully meagre: the War Department Appropriation Bill increasing the enlisted strength of the Army from 119,000 to 165,000 (TIME, March 25); a bill conferring the Distinguished Flying Cross on Italian Air Marshal Italo Balbo and on General Aldo Pellegrini for their flight to the Century of Progress in 1933; the repealer of income tar publicity (pink slips...
Though hirsute Fascist underlings were reported in a barber's rush to become smooth-faced last week, Air Marshal Italo Balbo, one of the few blackshirts who has ever talked back to Il Duce, remained bearded...
Only the most earnest Fascists take such Mussolini cynicisms seriously. Last week they produced as an example of Fascist freedom of the Press an article by Air Marshal Italo Balbo criticizing plans to subordinate the Air Force to the Army and Navy-plans reputedly favored by II Duce. Actually the appearance of such an article is apt to be a signal that the Dictator has changed his mind upon the point in question. It was small proof of freedom of the Press that Marshal Balbo was able to get on the front page of Air Minister Benito Mussolini...
...twin of No. 9; 11) Joseph 15; 12) Frank, 12; 13) Mary, 11; 14) Nicholas, 10; 15) John, 8; 16) Philip, 6; 17) Nancy, 5; 18) Rose, 2; 19) Benito Guy, 11 mo. On the way is a 20th child who, if a boy, will be named "Italo Balbo...
...from the azure waters of Capri last week bald, cerebral British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon rose on the wings of an Italian seaplane piloted by Ace Major Attilio Biseo, veteran of the Balbo flight to Chicago. Beside Sir John sat the Duke of San Vito, a secretary in Il Duce's Foreign Office. To discuss Dictator Mussolini's bold plan to "reform" the League of Nations (TIME, Dec. 18) Sir John had come from London, pausing to enjoy the holidays at Capri before getting to business...