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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your reviews of all kinds are splendid. Theatrical comment is frank and keen. Book reviews seem to catch the spirit of the author in a remarkable way. Occasionally your musical section provides a masterpiece of writing (e. g., "Bayreuth" in TIME of Aug. 3). The uncommon words you frequently use are invariably well chosen...
Just how good a "soldier-molecule" is Edda Mussolini, daughter of Benito (TIME, Aug. 17), became promptly evident. Edda, invited to go for a motor trip by friends at Parma, telegraphed her father for permission. When the answer was delayed she replied to entreaties that she "come along anyhow": "Non! I am a disciplined Fascist. Without permission from my Duce* I refuse to move!" Near Leghorn, squadristi (gunmen) riddled a railway coach which they thought contained Roberto Farinacci, Secretary General of the Fascist Party and "big personal friend" of Benito Mussolini. Signer Farinacci, having chanced to miss his train, escaped...
...manner of Dr. Frank Crane and Publicist Bruce Barton, last week outlined to a newspaper reporter the policy he intends to pursue in his new incumbency. There is an issue at Wisconsin: the regents' resolution to accept no more endowment funds from incorporated educational foundations (TIME, Aug. 17, Oct. 26). But Dr. Frank has only just gone on the scene. He is not one to commit himself. With a shrewd editor's talent for making nothing sound like something, said he: "If the facts warrant, I am willing to be as reactionary as the Czar of Russia...
...University of Wisconsin, the mouth of a gift horse is not, as it is for the University's regents, a proper subject for squeamish scrutiny. Since the regents resolved never again to accept "gifts, donations or subsidies from any incorporated educational endowments or organizations of like character" (TIME, Aug. 17), the alumni and faculty have held meetings, condemned the resolution, prepared...
...long ago (TIME, Oct. 5) "Emperor" A. J. Cooke incendiary Laborite, declared that, as a protest against the lowering of certain wage scales since the Baldwin coal subsidy went into effect (TIME, Aug. 31), the miners would refuse to testify before the Royal Commission* which is now gathering data on the coal dispute. Last week, in the meeting of the British Miners' Delegate Conference, at London, this recalcitrant stand was voted down, five...