Balbo

[ bahl-baw ]

noun

1. I·ta·lo [ee, -tah-law], 1896–1940, Italian aviator, general, and statesman.

Balbo

/ ˈbalbo /

noun

1. BalboItalo18961940MItalian FascistPOLITICS: politicianTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: airman Italo (ˈitalo). 1896–1940, Italian Fascist politician and airman: minister of aviation (1929–33)

Example Sentences

Horner has tended from time to time in recent years to downplay Newey's influence, and talk up that of technical director Pierre Wache and aerodynamics chief Enrico Balbo.

From BBC

Horner has spent time extolling the virtues of head of aerodynamics Enrico Balbo, lead performance engineer Ben Waterhouse and chief designer Craig Skinner.

From BBC

Monuments marked for removal included, among others, an 2,000 Roman column erected to commemorate fascist Italian aviator Italo Balbo’s 1933 transatlantic flight to Chicago, a statue of Union Gen. Philip Sheridan over his actions in the Indian Wars, and reliefs on the DuSable bridge that “place the history of Chicago and the Battle of Fort Dearborn within an allegorical narrative of the triumph of Western civilization.”

From Washington Times

The proposal also seeks to revive debate over a monument to Italo Balbo, which the commission decries as “a gift of the fascist government of Italy.”

From Seattle Times

“According to historian John Mark Hansen, aviator Italo Balbo ‘was a leader of the movement’s paramilitary Blackshirts, one of the men who planned the insurrectional March on Rome to install Mussolini as Italy’s dictator and, as colonial governor of Libya, a supporter of Italy’s forced annexation of Ethiopia,’ ” the commission said.

From Seattle Times