Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LIFE OF BENITO MUSSOLINI?From the Italian of Margherita G. Sarfatti?Stokes ($5). Emphatically, the Signora Sarfatti's biography must be read?if only because she is content to efface herself so often while the great Fascist thunders in his own words from her pages?reveals himself vividly in impetuous staccato phrases as compelling as those with which Napoleon Premier was wont to inspire and almost to hypnotize his armies...
...granted proportionately much easier terms to Italy (TIME, Nov. 23) than those which they have thus far demanded from France. Count Volpi was therefore expected by the Italian taxpayer to get Mr. Churchill to see that, instead of demanding proportionately more from Italy than from France, Britain should be content with less. The Initial Offers. The British were said to have knocked off 80 million of the 580 million pounds owing to them for a starter, and to have proposed that the residual 500 million pounds ($2,430,000,000) should be repaid to them in equal yearly installments over...
Down in Doyers St., Manhattan, the miserables of the island, unostentatiously mouch along. Drunks muse on the likelihood of panhandling the price of a finger or two of "likker" (anything with alcoholic content). Drug addicts deviously ponder methods of getting another "shot of morph" (hypodermic injection of morphine), or a "sniff of snow" (nasal inhalation of crystalline cocaine). Homeless and friendless they are for the most part, and normally mindful of their own fuzzy, vague affairs...
Against moneyed power, the individual crusader for uncontrolled news can have little hope of success. Either he can enter on a lone attempt to reform the press, or, he can content himself with the laissez faire reflection that since interests are rich enough to control a paper, all sides are represented in the daily orgy of propaganda...
Mustapha Kemal Pasha, President of the Turkish Republic, announced last week that these fragments of admittedly highly advanced European legislation are to be assembled into a Turkish Code, which will supplant the wildly jumbled legal system, based upon interpretations of the Koran, with which the Turks have been immemorially content...