Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Italy & Spain. Both these "constitutional monarchies" have relinquished the once democratic form of their parliaments and reduced to a mockery the prerogatives of their kings. Signer Benito Mussolini, as Dictator of Italy, and General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, his prototype in Spain, have now so claw-hooked their authority into the texture of law and politics that the only combative weapons left to their enemies are assassination and revolution. Both statesmen have successfully spurred their countrymen to strides and leaps in material progress. They are the fashion plates aped by all modern personal autocrats. Examples: President Mustafa Kemal Pasha...
...nature of the plea made by Old Paul von Hindenburg, but German patriotism made refusal-to the victor of Tannenburg* -impossible. Soon the joint cabinets issued a communique not only approving the experts' plan for direct financial relief to East Prussia but recommending further aid in the form of reduced taxes on East Prussian farms and real estate, as well as lowering of the freight tariffs on the German State Railways in favor of East Prussian goods...
...ridden horses bareback in a U. S. circus. And, like many another circus performer, she possessed a piety which the manner of her life gave her little opportunity to practice. After her death she wished that prize diamond of hers to be used in some tangible form for religious purposes...
With the institutes of the steel, oil, leather, textile, copper and other industries before them as examples, executives of U. S. sugar refining companies, and their lawyers, met in Manhattan last week and decided to form a similar institute for the sugar industry. Whether producers, shippers and distributors of sugar would be admitted to the institute, the refiners did not decide...
...Negro music, African sculpture have been elevated in the not distant past to positions of considerable dignity. The music, once regarded as inconsequential if not less, is now found to contain certain definitely worthwhile qualities; the sculpture is not simply a collection of hideous absurdities but rather a notable form of art. What, then, of Negro literature and folklore? Translator Margery Bianco gives to us in The African Saga, from L'Anthologie Negre of Blaise Cendrars, roving student and compiler, a comprehensive reply to this question. Legends, stories, fables from the myriad families and tongues of Africa have been...