Word: umbertos
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...help Comrade Pourmal make giant gas bags with the abandon of a lusty infant blowing bubbles, Italy's famed General Umberto Nobile will shortly arrive in Moscow, will become the technical brains behind Russia's balloon blowing...
...Antarctic Continent between the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea, three-quarters of which has never been seen by man. Principals will be Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, inactive in Arctic or Antarctic exploration since his friend Roald Amundsen lost his life seeking General Umberto Nobile in May 1928, and Pilot Bernt Balchen (Byrd transatlantic and South Pole nights). The expedition plans to leave New York in September 1933, sail to a base at Framheim on the Bay of Whales, from there fly east without stop over a 1,450-mi. route, then back again, bisecting the Antarctic Continent. Purposes...
Since Crown Prince Umberto is reputedly antiFascist, this tampering with the oath seemed a direct slap by Benito Mussolini...
...five-year plan was the sentence of five years in jail imposed by a Belgian court on one Fernando de Rosa who shot at but missed Italian Crown Prince Umberto when he came a-courting to Belgium (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929). Last week King Albert pardoned Shooter de Rosa who has been in jail two and a half years. Unofficially both the Belgian Court and the Italian Court announced that King Albert exercised his power of pardon by request of his son-in-law, Crown Prince Umberto. H. R. H. and his buxom Belgian wife (Princess Marie...
Russians, who rushed to the rescue of the famed North Pole expedition of General Umberto Nobile (TIME, July 23, 1928), should know whether he is or is not a bungling dirigible commander...