Word: mussolinis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course: First, Signor Benito Mussolini, 45, who lives most of the year away from his wife, Donna Rachele, yet dotes on their only daughter, Edda; and the Second, the Earl of Birkenhead, Viscount Furneaux, 56, Secretary of State for India, a devoted British husband, and a hero to his two smart daughters-Lady Eleanor Smith and Lady Pamela Margaret Elizabeth Smith...
Major Mario de Bernardi, hero of the 1926 Schneider Cup race, when Italy wrested the trophy from the U. S., was the first to obey Mussolini's command. Already the holder of the seaplane speed record, he went up last March and averaged 318.57 miles an hour over a measured course, beating his own record by more than 20 miles (TIME, April...
...Dictator Mussolini, eager for records, frowned upon trans-Atlantic hops. To Record-Holders Ferrarin and Delprete, however, he could not refuse permission to attempt the long and difficult flight from the mainland of Europe to South America. Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin and Passenger Charles A. Levine had set the airline distance record at 3,911 miles with their flight from Roosevelt Field (N. Y.) to Eisleben, Germany. The distance from Rome to Brazil, by any calculation, is over 4,000 miles. Ferrarin and Delprete took off from Monticelio Flying Field, Rome, last week, in the same single-motored Savoia-Marchetti...
They were in the air for more than two days, within one minute of 52 hours, before they landed at Point Genipabu, ten miles north of Natal, Brazil, having flown 4,417 miles* to give Dictator Mussolini his third major record of the year...
Should Dictator Mussolini's eagerness remain unsatisfied, what can obedient Fascists add to Italy's aeronautical glories? Rival nations reflected, last week, that many a record still withstands the Italian onslaught. Among them...