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...Italian women is the chief function of the women's section of the Fascist Party, the Fasci Femminili (Women's Groups). Its presidency is Italy's top political job for women. Last week Mussolini gave the Fasci Femminili a new president: Countess Bianca Pio di Savoia...
...ships, cream of 96 tested for the expedition, are Savoia-Marchetti S-55 hydroplanos* similar to those of the South Atlantic flight, great twin-hulled affairs with the pilots' compartment housed in a bridge between the hulls. Mounted above the bridge are two Isotta-Fraschini engines in tandem, each driving with 800 h.p. a three-bladed propeller. Cruising speed: 137 m.p.h. Cruising range...
When Captain Antonio Lena took the Italian Line's S. S. Conte di Savoia out of Genoa harbor last week, he wanted two things. One was to beat the average speed record for a transatlantic crossing: 27.9 knots, set by North German Lloyd's Europa in 1930. The second was to beat the Conte di Savoia's own record of six days and twelve hours from Genoa to Ambrose Channel Lightship. Five days and 20 hours later Captain Lena was a happy man. His long, lean, white ship had averaged only 27.4 knots from Genoa...
...Minister of Canada, whose eagerness to strike a quick trade & tariff bargain with the U. S. had to be restrained by President Roosevelt. On it next week were to sit Guido Jung, Italy's Minister of Finance, on his way to the U. S. aboard the Conte di Savoia as Premier Mussolini's personal representative, and Hjalmar Schacht. president of the German Reichsbank whom Dictator Hitler had dispatched to Washington...
...Signed) Giovanna di Savoia (Signed) Boris di Bulgaria...