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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with education, and a position as foreman of sulphur mines. Influenced somewhat by her father's high opinion of Aurelio, Dianella fell glowingly in love with the youth. Meanwhile, what with strikes and lockouts at the mines, the situation became so serious that Salvo decided to abandon the project of marrying the girl to Lando Laurentano and to give her instead to Aurelio, if that young man could quell the uprising of laborers. But the insensate miners greeted the representative of their inexorable master with knives and firebrands, and when Dianella heard that Aurelio (and a lady-friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peopled Complications | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...people of Belgium are 90% in favor of Cardinal Mercier's inscription. Students of the University, even the workmen who built the library, solidly demand the inscription. I have had people come up to me in the streets with their eyes streaming tears pleading with me not to abandon the fight but to remain firm. One of Herbert Hoover's own Wartime posters read: 'If seventy million Germans wept for a thousand years they could not make disappear the human miseries they caused in Belgium and Northern France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: At Louvain | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...London has now almost forgotten that it was Herbert Hoover who roused U. S. rubbermen to fight tooth and nail the British rubber restriction scheme which the Empire has now been forced to abandon (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hoover Pleases | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

American Linseed has not tried to abandon flaxseed products. But ten years ago it began to develop a sideline. Just as American Cotton Oil (now Gold Dust) pushed its soaps, American Linseed began to make and push a line of foodstuffs-Nucoa Nut margarine, Best Foods mayonnaise, relish spreads, thousand island dressing, shortening, Bread & Butter pickle relish. On the Pacific Coast its Gold Medal mayonnaise is the favorite salad dressing. Of these food items American Linseed, said Chairman Robert H. Adams this spring, last year sold $17,000,000 worth. Last February the Atlantic & Pacific chain groceries alone sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gold Dust & Best Foods | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...reasonably at such a possibility." Although enrollment is restricted, the clubs cannot stand still. The competition is there and the pace is stiff. The underlying spirit of loyalty to the cub system is all right, but there is no special sanctity attached to the form. The clubs might well abandon their defensive attitude and give thougt to the course of future development. There are no panaceas for the club problem, but there are great possibilities in intelligent direction of evolution. The Princeton Alumni Weekly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/15/1928 | See Source »

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