Word: bending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South Bend, Ind., Major General Smedley Darlington Butler U. S. M. C., just back in the Government's good graces after having branded Prime Minister Mussolini of Italy a hit-&-run driver (TIME, Feb. 9 et seq.), told the Knife & Fork Club; "When public opinion is aroused, Al Capone will go back to Italy-but I can't talk about Italy. God help anyone who gets in the way of public opinion, for I know." He then proceeded to explain how "any police force can clean any city in 24 hours if the Mayor and City Government want...
...comfort to those in its shelter, but the difficulty is in creating a reputation for superiority in all forms of activity. Harvard's claim to the strength of tradition and mellow antiquity can hardly be disputed considering its great age in comparison with the other institutions, however. In South Bend, Indiana there is a college not even mentioned by the Boston Herald but which has established a standard of football which has been unsurpassed for some time. There are small colleges in which the Haison between teacher and pupil is much closer than in the large impersonal universities. Experimental institutions...
Government in China is a sensitive plant, dependent on the weather. In summer when the weather is warm, Chinese politicos take the field. The Nationalist government must bend all its energies to preserving its existence amid ceaseless civil war. With the first frosts the troops in the field, like the sap in the trees, are stilled. Last week rebel troops were sufficiently frostbound to allow T. V. Soong, China's able, Harvard-trained Finance Minister to promulgate a law for which he and foreign traders have been agitating for years. The likin or tariff on goods shipped from...
...takes him into the Vatican gardens, where he gets out for a walk. When he was Papal Nuncio in Poland (sent by his predecessor Benedict XV) he made a crony of Josef Pilsudski. a man who craves companionship. Marshal (later dictator) Pilsudski, a stalwart, used to be able to bend silver rubles with his mighty fingers, to crack nuts in his hairy fist Nuncio Ratti could not duplicate those feats. His hands were, and are, a scholar's soft ones. ' Joint diversion of the Marshal and the Nuncio was chess, at which both are adept. The bold Pole...
...good Roman Catholic and a good businessman is Edward Nash Hurley of Chicago. A good Roman Catholic institution is the University of Notre Dame at South Bend, Ind. To Notre Dame came last week a gift from Businessman Hurley: $200,000 to found a College of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. Well might Businessman Hurley consider himself internationally-minded, well might he plan that his donation should make internationally-minded businessmen out of Notre Dame students. His fortune, he pointed out, had started in 1899, in London, with the sale of $125,000 of patents for pneumatic hammers and drills, which...