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...Blackshirts, the fifth year also closes with a formidable surplus on the credit side of the ledger. Some events among many entitle it to a place in the history of the Fascist regime: The victorious defense of the lira, the rent laws and the promulgation of the labor charter...
...Science selected eight prominent journals; measured the space they gave to a recent meeting in Philadelphia of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The eight sheets consumed 1,379% column-inches, of which the Boston Transcript took 347. Last stood the Philadelphia (where the meeting met) Evening Ledger with 74% column inches. The New York Times led Manhattan journals tabulated with 175% column inches; the World had 113%. Education and general science lumped led the subjects treated with 194%; astronomy stood second with...
...called by rare Ben Jonson two centuries before the historic morning of Dec. 2, 1836, when the Philadelphia Public Ledger first referred to "The Almighty Dollar...
...predominated by Russia and Turkey . . . supported by a million bayonets . . . with the potential possibilities of arraying ten million fighting men against ... the West." To serious diplomatic watchers of the sky, the annoying thing about Hearstian scoops is that now and again they are "straight." Strangely enough the Philadelphia Public Ledger Foreign Service turned up an equally unique "scoop" to the effect that M. Tchitcherin would speed to Paris and there lay before Foreign Minister Briand a scheme for a Pan-Asiatic League to be set up in close harmony with the League of Nations...
...Drifter, author of acid comments published weekly in the Nation, has made out a ledger sheet for the sings and saving graces of these United States. He lists forty six assets and sixty four liabilities and hints that had he not been hampered by limitations of space be could have gone on with the latter indefinitely; the credit column is, he regrets, practically complete. Among the assets are found such peculiarly. American contributions to world contentment as bathrooms, the New York theatre, bobbed hair, rebellious undergraduates, one piece bathing suits, Beacon Bill on Christmas Eve, and the Marx brothers...