Word: littorio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles from Madrid, a final review for the German, Italian and Spanish airmen who fought on his side in the war. Wearing the blue-grey uniform of the Spanish Air Force, flanked by his usual mounted Moorish guards, El Caudillo took the salute from 1,500 Italians of the Littorio Legion, 5,000 Germans of the Condor Legion, 3,500 Spaniards. To 15 German and eight Italian aviators he awarded the Spanish military medal. In a speech characterized by Latin expansiveness, the Generalissimo predicted that Spain's present air strength will be "multiplied a hundred times in the future...
Fortnight ago Secretary General Achille ("The Panther Man") Starace of the Italian Fascist Party prowled through the halls of the Palazzo Littorio, Fascist headquarters in Rome, in an ugly mood. He called in the Party's trained mob-prompters and furiously dressed them down for an event which might have passed unnoticed by the outside world had Signor Starace not made such a fuss...
...they have usually done when glory was being dished out, his Italian "volunteers" again got away with the biggest helping. At the head of the parade of 80,000 troops rode the Italian Chief of Staff, General Gastone Gambara. Behind his strutting chestnut pony came the Italian Littorio Division and the Italian members of the Black, Blue and Green Arrow Legions. Overhead, 30 Italian planes flew in a formation of the Fascist emblem. When the Italian forces had passed on, the Rebel divisions were allowed to pick up the leavings...
...Yurga") Endres in the Lockheed Justice for Hungary which he flew from the U. S. last year. Just before the take-off Capt. Alexander Magyar, his transatlantic flying companion with whom Capt. Endres later quarreled, withdrew from the Rome jaunt. In his place went Capt. Julius Bittay. Arrived over Littorio Airport the plane went into a sideslip, unaccountably crashed. Before the eyes of other famed airmen gathered to greet them, Flyers Endres and Bittay died in flames...