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...visit to the offices and adjoining printing plant of his onetime newspaper Il Popolo d'ltalia, now conducted by his tousled-haired brother Arnaldo. When Brother Benito strode in, unannounced, at the busy hour of midnight, he found Brother Arnaldo hard at work in his shirt-sleeves and bade him by a gesture to continue. Passing on into the news and composing rooms Il Duce greeted many an old employe by name and by clapping him in fatherly fashion upon the back. Pausing before the ink-stained composing room roller towel he beamed and cried with mock-heroic satisfaction...
...Crescent Mine, near California, Pa., picketers jeered and swore as usual at "scab" workers (mostly Negroes) filing in for another day's work. The Pittsburgh Coal Co.'s strong-arm men* jostled the picketers, bade them begone. A striker fired a shotgun. Two strong-armers roared with pain. The crowd dissolved, growling with satisfaction. The week before it had been a striker's woman who was hurt?trampled by a police horse. . . . Next time the California picketers assembled they were dispersed by tear...
Adopted unanimously in committee were a Mexican proposal and a Peruvian amendment which bade fair to alter slightly the makeup of the Governing Board of the permanent Pan-American Union at Washington, a bureau which functions between Pan-American Conferences...
Near the storied river Ganges, at flourishing Allahabad, Central India, stands a jail. Last week 100 Indians, incarcerated at hard labor, revolted, pinioned their native overseer and vengefully cut off his nose. Then, arming themselves with edged tools, they climbed to the roof of the jail and bade fanatical defiance to the British Empire as personified by additional warders who appeared armed with revolvers, dragging a machine...
...Paul Claudel, the great mystical poet and practical statesman whom France has sent as her Ambassador to the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 22, 1926), bade godspeed, last week at Manhattan, to a great urbane, humanitarian Middle Westerner (Cleveland) who returned, after a five months illness to his post as U. S. Ambassador to France...