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What this finality will mean to Italy, Signor Marsanich (who seemed to be sending up trial balloons last week for Premier Mussolini) stated thus: "In industry the corporations will have to assume economic functions-even to taking the place of private initiative and writing finis to the capitalistic regime as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: New Kind of State | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

How should a preacher pronounce "Amen?" A short, brisk "aymen" or a long "ah-men?" Few laymen care, but Rev. Alfred Merrill Eells of Esperance, N. Y. came out flatly last week against what he called "ahhhhhhmen." In The Presbyterian he declared that it is an imitation, taken by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ahhhhhhmen | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

Friendship brings an understudy part; luck brings the big chance. She is a tremendous success--the usual Hollywood thing--with banks of flowers, heaps of sequins, trays of importunate little cards. But not one of the little cards has the right name engraved on it, for there is no right...

Author: By G. G. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/27/1933 | See Source »

When they come to balance the books on the college careers to which Finis has been written in official decorative script, the Class of 1933 may well conclude that the expenditure of four years according to the dictates of custom has not been a totally profitable venture. It is a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO THE COMPANY OF EDUCATED MEN | 6/22/1933 | See Source »

At the end of the last century an itinerant house painter named John St. Helen appeared in the Southwest. When drunk, he would confess that he was Booth, that U. S. troopers had got the wrong man in Virginia, that he had escaped to Mexico. When sober, he would deny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mummy | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

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