Word: bruno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commander of the Air Force of the Reich. He deserves his titles. He built the German Air Force from nothing to supremacy in Europe in two short years. The world knows how he did it under the cover of: 1) an Air Sports League commanded by his old friend Bruno Loerzer; 2) a German Air Defense League under the presidency of a retired artillery general, Hugo Grimme who plastered the country with such posters as SAVE YOUR PENNIES FOR THE AIR DEFENSE LEAGUE AND LIVE TO GROW UP; 3) reorganization of the commercial aviation industry to build transports easily convertible...
Born. To Aviation Captain Bruno Mussolini, 22, second .son of II Duce, and Gina Ruberti Mussolini, 22: their first child, a daughter; in Rome. Name: Marina...
Died. Ellis Howard Parker, 68, ill-famed Lindbergh case detective, who went to jail for conspiring to kidnap Attorney Paul H. Wendel and extorting from him a subsequently repudiated confession which postponed the execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann (see p. 38) ; of brain tumor; in the Federal penitentiary, Lewisburg...
...Caught Bruno Hauptmann, because Elmer Irey insisted (over Colonel Lindbergh's objections) on recording the numbers of the ransom money...