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These youthful delegates have something of an advantage over the League itself. At Genoa the babel of languages must be transferred to one tongue; at Amherst, though many representatives will be bona fide Europeans or Asiatics, no reading knowledge of foreign languages is required--provided the pleasant possibilities of education have been realized. And therein lies an analogy, or at worst a similarity. If education makes it possible for these foreign students to speak comprehensible English, it has one point in favor of its finally producing the mutual understanding among peoples, so long desired, so slow to come. Not that...
...rebuttal to Baron Cushendun soon made by Comrade Litvinov was phrased almost exclusively for home consumption. For example he defended the Soviet Government against charges of bad faith by declaring that it had championed disarmament as far back as the Genoa Conference...
...chief harbor cities of Italy, headed by Genoa, were created "restricted free ports," last week by decree of Dictator Benito Mussolini. The outstanding "free port" of Europe continues Gibraltar -a city of exotic bargains dear to tourists. At the new Italian "restricted free ports" a small duty will have to be paid on only a very few kinds of articles-these "to be announced later." By invitation and command of Signer Mussolini, there was completed, last week, a score for the new Fascist Hymn of Labor. Composer: Pietro Mascagni, creator of the score of Cavalleria Rusticana. Fascist critics cried "solemn...
Ninety years ago, Marvin Hughitt was born on a farm in Genoa, N. Y. When he was 15, he was a telegraph operator in Albany. Ten years later he went without sleep for two nights to supervise the complicated departure of trains carrying Union soldiers to Cairo, Ill. While the railroads were pushing their bright tentacles across the Northwest, Marvin Hughitt was becoming assistant general manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, manager of the Pullman Palace Car Co., general superintendent of the Chicago & Northwestern, for whose present 10,000 miles of track he is largely responsible...
...having held two other posts in the interim, he attended the Genoa conference and soon afterwards became ambassador to both China and Japan. It was while in the Orient that he contracted the disease that was so to torment him as to compel him to take his own life...