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...left $500,000 to that Toronto mother who bore the most children within the next decade. To be counted, the offspring might be born alive or dead, legitimate or illegitimate. With Oct. 31 just six weeks away, the Toronto baby derby last week entered the home stretch. Five fecund women were running almost neck & neck. Of these, three would be out of the money if anyone bettered their record of ten children in ten years. A fourth, now pregnant, needs twins before Oct. 31 to win. A fifth, with ten offspring sure and possibly two more off the record...
Though Dictator Mussolini in negotiation is one of the coldest and most self-possessed statesmen in Europe, he always leaves a rattling war display in high exuberance. Last week he sped from the games to the most fecund little town in the Kingdom to expound his 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...
...prominent Ethiopian chiefs and six leading Italian emigrant farmers and merchants. In Addis Ababa last week it was believed that some 400,000 of the Italian soldiers and laborers now in Africa will settle there, later bringing out from Italy their families "to colonize these depopulated lands with the fecund Italian race...
...somewhat skittish about her cousin, ex-King Georgios II. One year was the short span of "Gorgeous Georgios' " kingship twelve years ago, and his childless ex-Queen divorced him recently (TIME, July 15). Two months ago Marina let it be understood that she, at any rate, is fecund. Last week the British public was supposed to think that the prospective young mother was merely resting in Yugoslavia at Prince Paul's romantic Bohinjsko Castle where she became engaged. The public was not supposed to notice that Premier Tsaldaris, after announcing at Athens that he was going to Germany...
...Increasing the Population of France, which tucks an illustrated manual of instruction into the knapsack of every French recruit and has obtained exemption from Army service for every Frenchman with six children or more, reduced railway tickets for families with three or more, many another benefit for the fecund. Within a few hours M. Boverat had obtained a police order barring Miss Warner from dancing at the Bagdad. Next he got her indicted "for an offense against the public's sense of shame.'' No attempt, however, was made to stop the Poetess of Naked Rhythm from appearing...