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Most noteworthy Italian exponent of the Fascist dictum that woman's place is in the home is none other than Donna Rachele Mussolini. For more than two decades this 49-year-old onetime waitress has been a strict homebody, has been seldom seen and never heard in public, has mean while presented her lord, Benito Mussolini, with no less than four strapping bambinos...
...found a way to stop this drain. But they did so by violating capitalism's unwritten Magna Charta: That money must have a right to go wherever it can make profits and avoid losses. In Britain, this right has now been suspended by Sir John Simon's dictum: "The export of capital . . . would be deleterious to the national interest...
...Peace now and unity gradually," was the dictum for solution of the A. F. of L. - C. I. O. rift set forth by Spencer Pollard '32, instructor in Economics in the fifteenth Guardian Radio Broadcast last night...
...fact that devices easily applicable to the military were being developed in Bridgman's laboratory, seems to be the main factor influencing approbation of the dictum. Harold M. Westergaard, Gordon McKay Professor of Civil Engineering, himself a Lieutenant Commander, thought that the "ultimatum will have only good effects...
...sometimes said that the motion picture is the Peter Pan of the arts; Walter Wanger and United Artists are fast proving this dictum false. With "Algiers" and now with "Trade Winds," this week at Loew's State and Orpheum, a simple theme has been taken and developed through the ingenious use of technical devices into a powerful and moving drama. This is not to say that from a purely artistic point of view, "Trade Winds" is in a class with its predecessor, for it is not; but on the other hand this latest attempt will doubtless be even more popular...