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...poets or philosophers. His curriculum excludes all but "useful" subjects. Thus, his schools teach no foreign language, no art but the utilitarian, no literature for its own sake. Fond of moral precepts such as abound in the McGuffey Readers, Henry Ford values as literature Longfellow's The Village Blacksmith, because of its message. He likes to read to children these McGuffey verses...
...Majesty Vittorio Emanuele III. King of Italy, after opening an art exhibition at Forli, last week visited the graves of the late village blacksmith and his wife: Alessandro & Rosa Maltoni Mussolini at nearby Predappio. Then His Majesty inspected the humble stone house in which their son Benito was born. After that he traveled to Rocca delle Caminate. Il Duce's country home. At the entrance Il Duce greeted his royal lord & master, talked with King Vittorio Emanuele alone for half an hour. It was the first time that any sovereign of the House of Savoy had honored a mere...
...course, James J. Hines, a bulky, taciturn man of 61 who started life as a blacksmith and now lives in quiet, sporting affluence, with a country cottage at Long Beach and a town apartment near the northwest corner of Central Park, appeared with his lawyer at the D. A.'s office to submit to arrest. It was the crowning sensation of a three-year campaign to roust racketeers out of Manhattan. It was also the biggest act yet in the career of Thomas Edmund Dewey, now 36, who three years ago, when Governor Lehman appointed him special rackets prosecutor...
Peter Foley was only moderately flushed by his 26-mile jog. Skeptics along the sidelines suspected that the grinning oldster was guilty of some capricious prank. But they were mistaken. White-whiskered, toothless Peter Foley, who weighs only 119 pounds but has a blacksmith's handshake, had actually run the full marathon distance. But he had started two hours ahead of the field...
...possibility that Oklahoma's politicians had encouraged old folks to confuse their program with the Townsend plan. Whatever the cause, Oklahoma's oldsters had leaped onto the bandwagon with a vengeance. One pensioner, a physician, had just bought a new Ford for cash. A pensioned blacksmith owned his own shop, a car, two lots, owed no debts or back taxes. Of 47 ineligibles on the rolls in one county, 20 were not 65 years of age. Among the discovered beneficiaries were 157 corpses, twelve inmates of insane asylums. Over 1.400 case files were missing. Other interesting pensioners...