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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invitation from the President is a command, although it is usually worked to permit declinations in favor of previous engagements.* Governor Alfred E. ("Smiling") Smith was unable to accept President Coolidge's first luncheon date, so their respective secretaries exchanged cordial telegrams and arranged a second...
...conducive to increased efficiency because of the detailed functions assigned to the Emergency Fleet Corporation. As a matter of fact, the Shipping Board retains absolute control by the simple, yet efficacious, method of demanding a blanket resignation from each Emergency Fleet Corporation President before he takes office. To date Lasker, Farley, Palmer, Crowley have "resigned." Brigadier General A. C. Dalton was handed the shaky sceptre last week. He has already "handed in his resignation" to the Shipping Board, although the latter graciously will not "accept" during General Dalton's good behavior in its eyes. The Shipping Board, naturally smug...
...Phyllis Wheatly, obfuscate Boston demoiselle, wrote good poetry at an early date...
...running liquor. He was condemned to death. In 1922, Governor Len Small of Illinois commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment; last week he granted a parole to Potz, effective in 1930. Aside from the question of the legality of a double commutation, aside from the reason for the date 1930, aside from the friendly relations of Potz with Len Small politics, thousands of decent Illinoisans were vastly irritated because this was merely the latest of many criminals to receive favor from a Governor, whom decent thousands regard as a cold-blooded crook...
...despair of his guards Signor Mussolini has become so attached to the now full-grown lioness that he insists on entering her cage for an occasional frolic. When he calls: "Italia! Italia Bella!" the lithe tawny beast bounds up to him, is said to purr with alarming loudness. To date 11 Duce has suffered barely a scratch or two from the claws of Italia Bella. Like her namesake, "Fair Italy," she appears to adore him. The invisible talons of Federzoni may yet prove more deadly to II Duce's supremacy than the claws of Italia Bella. Mussolinism. Today...