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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite rabbit philosophy of Empire. As the fathers & mothers of Potenza and their highly numerous offspring thronged around him with cheers, Orator Mussolini cried: "Those who have a right to Empire are the fecund peoples-those people who have the pride and the will to propagate their race on earth-VIRILE PEOPLES in the strictest meaning of those words!" In what appeared to be a slap at France, the Dictator contemptuously declared: "Peoples with empty cribs cannot create an Empire-and if they have an Empire the time will come when it will be extremely difficult for them to keep...
...Freshmen have been invited to Cambridge before the opening of College to witness the Harvard family, gathered from all parts of the earth to solemnize a birthday and show its appreciation for benefits received. And it can truly be said that every Harvard graduate owes much to the College; the paltry thousand dollars a year handed over during residence as undergraduates does not represent an adequate payment for services rendered, opportunities given. Only in carrying the ideals of the College out into the world, in showing by their own services to the world the value of what they have received...
...riding togs, followed by female "angels" in green and white satin, wearing banners blazoned "Father Divine is God." Pennons and banners carried by marchers showed that Father Divine has a POLITICAL DEPARTMENT, a RESEARCH DEPARTMENT by which "The Eyes of the Lord Runneth To and Fro Throughout the Whole Earth." Swinging music for all this was furnished by a band which included not only the usual brasses and wood winds but also violins, harmonicas, accordions, ukuleles, guitars, banjos and a portable xylophone...
...found gold wherever they dug. Working with a primitive "coffee grinder" mill, they began turning out $500 worth of gold a day, paid off the two prospectors within a year and up to last week had taken $80,000 in gold out of the earth. Last week the dazzling story of the Jumbo strike spread across the country on the authority of no less a mining expert than Herbert Hoover...
Touchy, redheaded Selma Temple was walking with her lover, Gardner Heath, when a fox hunt interrupted their peaceful afternoon. The fox passed near them and the girl "saw him trembling with exhaustion, his belly dragging close to earth his brush bemired. His strong claws pulled him up that slope, but the lithe body, weightless two hours ago, was now too heavy. . . . Now not even death could drive his weary body faster up that hill." As the dogs killed him the lovers began to quarrel, Selma protesting against the cruelty of hunters, Gardner impatient at her squeamishness. With this symbolic incident...