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...Then he reminded me of a night when we had a frugal supper together in a Bloomsbury restaurant?it must have been 40 years ago???when he was a medical student and I was a city clerk. Our combined wealth was insufficient to save us from walking as far as Holloway station...
March upset the Throne of Nicholas II. Kerensky's power did not survive October. Before the turn of the new year Lenin and Trotsky were the Gods of Moscow, and Bukharin was their Prophet. He remained for eleven years?until only a few months ago???the most potent of Soviet editors and publicists. He watched Lenin die. He saw Trotsky exiled for a "Left Heresy" (TiME, Jan. 30, 1928), and as Editor of Pravda, foremost Red daily, gave his old friend many a parting editorial kick. He became the closest confidant, and was called the "brains" of Soviet Dictator Josef...
With a solemn flourish and a little very black ink His Majesty Vittorio Emanuele III last week signed away the Constitutional right of Italians to democratic government. This was the last act in a drama which began three years ago???a great drama for which Signor Mussolini supplied the livid theme...
...last U. S. jazz band to play in London?three and a half years ago???was the relatively restrained Brooke Johns Orchestra. Dauntlessly, however, "Conductor Abie" sailed from Manhattan. The Ministry of Labor agreed that "Abie's Own" may perform at a London night club, on condition that the proprietor hire an equal number of authentic British musicians...
...Long ago???in the early spring of 1924?Congress embarked upon the task of succoring the farmer. Two plans were vigorously suggested: 1) the McNary-Haugen bill which provided for a huge Government brokerage corporation to buy the farmers' crops and virtually fix the market prices, operating expenses being paid by an equalization fee (crop tax), collected from the farmers; 2) the Norbeck-Burtness bill which would aid the agrarian by lending him Government money...