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...incident occurred during a Mussolini speech to the pick of his Blackshirts, assembled in Rome from all over Italy's knee, shin, heel and toe. The Blackshirts were on a jaunt. All expenses to and from Rome had been paid. In their pockets were fine crisp bank notes, "prizes" for Fascist merits, ranging from 500 to 2,000 lire. All this conspired to confuse them when Il Duce rhetorically touched on the subject of self-sacrifice. Confidently expecting a negative answer, he threw back his head and bellowed: "Do you want riches? Do you want glory? Do you want...
Outside of Tuskegee Mr. Roosevelt changed from train to automobile, thereafter interspersed his jaunt with talks on a favorite theme: let the South make itself self-sufficient. At Auburn, he recalled how when he first lived in Warm Springs, he found that all the milk, apples, meat, shoes for sale there came from the North. To make the South selfsupporting, he said, "means a lot of work. It means, incidentally, getting the South out of hock to the North. I don't believe that the South is so broke that it cannot put its own capital into the establishment...
...story-book adventures of the pioneers who crossed the North American prairie wastes in their Conestaga wagons influenced David Hume '40 into priming up his own prairie schooner, a model A flivver of uncertain vintage, for a Christmas holiday jaunt through Canada...
...Winthrop game, Lowell took the ball from their own 40 at the beginning of the fourth quarter and marched through Kirkland. Mel Gordon capped a series of brilliant end runs and tackle slashes with a 30 yard jaunt through the center of the Deacon line and was brought down on the Kirkland seven...
...incidentally won from Broker Tuerk $9,000 earmarked for paying off the mortgage on the plantation). On the home green of Long Island's Salisbury Country Club at 10:30 one evening, under the eerie glare of magnesium flares, Golfer Ferebee completed his two-a-day transcontinental jaunt. For four days, while the majority of U. S. golfers stuck to their radios and stockbrokers stuck to their tickers, Broker Ferebee had stuck to his golf ball-in Los Angeles and Phoenix, Kansas City and St. Louis, Milwaukee and Chicago, Philadelphia and New York. He had traveled 3,000 miles...