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...founded holding company, and Union des Mines, large French industrial bank. Each gave the other a substantial but minority stock interest; officials of each will be invited to join the other. The deal will give Transamerica, which already controls Milan's Banca d'America e d'Italia, association with the French electrical, metal, chemical and coal industries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Banking Week | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

Next day in Milan that intense person, Editor Arnaldo Mussolini (brother) clarioned in the family newspaper Il Popolo d'Italia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Forewarned, Forearmed | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

...Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant Attorney-General, now Washington attorney for The Aviation Corp. which owns Alaskan Airways, begged him to intercede. He cabled to Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs at Moscow. At once the Russians, eager to repeat their glory of rescuing the wrecked Italia crew, ordered out three planes stationed within flying distance of Eielson's disappearance. They also telegraphed and radioed Siberian outposts to send out sledge parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Foolproof? | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...Ellsworth and Umberto Nobile, beat them to the first Arctic air crossing by sailing the semirigid dirigible Norge from Spitsbergen westward across the North Pole to Nome, Alaska. Amundsen was killed two years ago trying to find hapless Umberto Nobile who had been wrecked with his Pole visiting semirigid Italia. Wilkins is now at Antarctica making occasional exploratory flights from Deception Island. Eielson was with him there last year, would have returned except that he had "to make some money." He said: "This exploring life is fascinating. But you can't live on glory when you get old." Managing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Foolproof? | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...trunk full of his own clothes and took the painter to Provence for his health. He improved slightly but once back in Paris he drank again, became so undermined that when an unusual cold wave struck in December 1920 he died of influenza with the words "Cara, cara, Italia!'' (Dear, dear Italy) on his lips. A few days later his mistress threw herself from a window. Friends of the painter wired his brother in Italy that he had died a pauper. The reply was: "Bury him as prince." Modigliani was carried to his grave by the celebrities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Modigliani's Mode | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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