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...Victorious One, hero of the Young Turks' victorious war to oust the Sultan, has now caught the international itch for concluding peace treaties. Last week, he proclaimed, as President of Turkey, that Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushdi Bey had signed a treaty of "security and conciliation" with Italy and treaties of "security, conciliation, collaboration and active aid in case of attack" with Persia and Afghanistan...
...birth. He would, he said, translate and edit the works of Historian Thucydides (died circa 400 B. C.). He would be deeply, profoundly absorbed for a long time, perhaps until Death came. . . . Promptly suspicious Greeks reasoned that so successful a maker of history as Eleutherios Venizelos might soon itch to do more than edit. They remembered that he brought Greece into the War on the side of the Allies, although Greek King Constantine was brother-in-law to All Highest Kaiser Wilhelm. At the Peace Conference it was in large measure due to the peculiar, enticing charm of M. Venizelos...
Though Prince Carol abdicated of his own free will, and in Italy where he could scarcely have been forcibly brought to do so (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926), he began almost at once to itch for the sceptre which would otherwise have been his when King Ferdinand of Rumania died (TIME, Aug. 1). The reasons for his abdication may remain forever partially obscure, but it is clear that they originated in his desire to escape the responsibilities of rank and dwell inconspicuously with various ladies. The latest of these, Mme. Magda Lupescu, comely Jewess, was sharing Prince Carol's suite...
...with hardly the beginnings of an education. Contrasted with the students in English and Continental secondary schools, they must be rated, age for age, markedly inferior. There is no thoroughness or consistency in our school system. Our schools suffer from that disease that keeps them permanently enfeebled--'credititis', the itch for credits points, units, and semester hours. We are in the midst of a generation of students and teachers obsessed with the notion that organization in education means more than anything else. Educationally we are a nation of credit hunters and degree worshippers. Studies are considered mere payments demanded...
...momentarily joins the cast to exhibit this gyration, recalling days when he was an humble hoofer** for his now greatest rival, Florenz Ziegfeld. This innovation is second only, in importance, to the appearance in the pit of Mr. Wynn leading the orchestra, in which process his back begins to itch-something that well trained conductors' backs never do. But Mr. Wynn's does, and he scratches...