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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raised such a howl that this year Il Duce ordered mixing to stop. But cold wet weather reduced the Italian corn crop to less than last year's 121,110,000 bushels. The fruit crop too (which in orange-and-olive-growing Italy is important) is poor and late...
...swank, fox-hunting Warrenton, Va., Washington Society Columnist Count Igor Cassini (grandson of the late Tsarist Ambassador to the U. S. Count Arthur Cassini) was lured from a country-club dance, tarred & feathered by five aristobrats. Arrested next day were Ian and Colin Montgomery, Alexander Calvert. Reported the Count: "I recognized Ian Montgomery and asked him, 'Why are you doing this to me?' He said I had written in my column that his mother was invited to the reception for the King and Queen of England and that his father had not been invited...
Rensselaer's creed was stated in 1935 by the late Edwin S. Jarrett, then its acting president. After Communist Granville Hicks had been dismissed from Rensselaer's faculty, Mr. Jarrett said: "We adhere to an unwritten regulation of long standing that there shall be excluded from our classrooms all controversial discussions about politics, religion and sociology. Time devoted to such subjects . . . is . . .lost time. . . . We have developed and prospered under the capitalist regime. The men we have sent forth and who have become industrial leaders-have . . . richly endowed us. ... If we are condemned as the last refuge...
...years the world's fair of the cinema world has been the International Film Festival at Venice. In the past this annual, late-summer gathering to pick the world's best films has chosen such universally acclaimed cinemas as Man of Aran, Anna Karenina, Mayerling, La Kermesse Héroïque. But two years ago B. Mussolini began to take a personal, political interest in the cinema business, and last year cinemindustries not bedded in the Rome-Berlin axis began to feel its centrifugal force. The No. 1 prize, the Mussolini Cup, went jointly to Nazi Leni...
Nature of the Egg. One of the first such controversies in which he engaged was over the widely held notion of late 19th-Century science that a fertilized egg before starting to grow by cleavage (cell division)-and even for a time afterwards -was just so much undifferentiated raw material of life-like a lump of butter, or a pile of butter balls. Indeed one biologist did compare the early cleavage cells to "balls in a pile," and pronounced the act of cleavage at this stage to be "a mere sundering of homogeneous materials capable of any fate." The start...