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Expositor & Homiletic Review: "The Church has hurt the income of the motion picture barons. . . . Retaliation is only to be expected. . . . Take a special offering, enlist your adult and junior organizations...
Same day tall, fair Vittorio Mussolini, 18, and chunky, dark Bruno Mussolini, 17, the youngest regularly licensed air pilots in Italy, called on their father as Minister of Aviation, to enlist for fighting service against Ethiopia. Fascists present said that Il Duce received his sons with a visible effort to master his feelings as a father, grunted a wordless assent to their request, dashed his signature upon their papers of enlistment...
Chicagoans first began to like Marshall III in 1917 when, after spending most of his youth at Eton and Cambridge, he returned to enlist as a buck private in the U. S. Army. They liked him even more when he returned from France a cavalry captain and, despite unlimited capital and numerous business opportunities, went to work as a bond salesman and bookkeeper's apprentice at Lee, Higginson & Co. Later Salesman Field opened an investment business of his own and still later joined forces with two young investment bankers named Charles F. Glore and Pierce C. Ward...
...hovering over the afflicted territory like a bird of ill-omen. Turkey, Jugoslavia, and Italy undoubtedly would not resist taking a morsel of Greece if it were dangled before their eyes. The one hope that Greece has of setting her affairs without interference and loss is to enlist British support. The British watchdog, with a sentimental interest since Byron and a commercial interest antedating that, has already growled but may have to do a little judicious nipping to preserve "the cause of Greek independence...
...erratic second son has set out to join the French Foreign Legion. The first time, last summer, he got as far as the Dunkirk recruiting office before changing his mind, decided to open a hot-dog stand at Maidenhead. "I am Lord Edward Montagu. I want to enlist," he announced again last week to a Paris recruiting officer. The officer took his application, which asked assignment to the aviation service, gave him a 5-franc piece. Lest Lord Edward turn back, his sister, Lady Louise, put him on a train with soap and toothbrush. In barracks at Toul, between...