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Thus Signor Benito Mussolini is placed in a position to absolutely dominate the Chamber by indirect appointive means. Other features of the law include: 1) Reduction of the number of deputies from 535 to 400; 2) The Grand Council to draw the nominees which it approves for candidacy from panels submitted by exclusively Fascist organizations, such as the 13 "corporations" which represent all Fascist agricultural, industrial and employer groups; 3) Suffrage to be accorded to celibate citizens over 21 or to married citizens over 18, provided that they pay certain taxes or are of the recognized clergy or are state...
Last week High Steward Poincare completed his indirect accounting and appeal to the electorate by shrewdly declaring that in 1928 he will (i.e. if supported at the general election) complete the fiscal rehabilitation of France by finally and legally stabilizing the franc...
...think that in the Latin countries the effort of women's indirect rule is to improve culture, and to raise the estate of the arts. Culture is accumulative," the Count remarked, "and women are an accumulative lot. Men, on the other hand, are restless, and inclined to discard what they have used for a time, and when there is such constant replacement there cannot be culture in the real sense...
...good for anemic patients. Where the bone marrow and spleen do not manufacture sufficient red blood corpuscles to keep a person healthy, he can build himself up on a diet of liver. Liver contains iron in such chemical form that it can be absorbed by the body in the indirect making of the red blood corpuscles. But a diet of a pound of liver a day is necessary. Anemic patients complain: "Doctor, it can't be done. I can't even take liver every day, and certainly not for every meal." The trouble is, decided Editor Morris Fishbein...
...pages in the Taxi Weekly are a power for good conduct among Manhattan cabbies, tabulating penalties meted out in the city's special Hack Bureau to perpetrators of prevalent hackmen's peccadillos: driving "with the flag up" (metre not recording); taking indirect routes; smoking while carrying passengers; withholding receipts from employers; forgetting license badge; charging an Englishman who undervalued U. S. currency $14 for a $1.40 ride...