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Sponsored by wealthy Fascist patrons- Poet Virgilio Fiorentino has just produced an epic of 20,000 verses "priced at 12,980 lire ($675) the set, handsomely bound and illustrated." Title: Twenty-Seven Songs of the Fascist Revolution. At the rate of one song (volume) per month, the 27 volumes will appear during the next three and a quarter years, subscribers paying by the volume (month...
Officially the Papal monetary unit is the "gold lira," identical in value with the stabilized Italian lira. Both kinds of lire will circulate without distinction in both the Kingdom of Italy and the Papal State...
...Olga Mead, widow of the late great Architect William Rutherford Mead (McKim, Mead & White) gave Benito Mussolini 10,000 lire ($500) in gratitude for his aid in transporting the body of her husband to Rome for burial. Cyril Clemens, cousin of Mark Twain and president of the Mark Twain Society of Webster Groves, Mo., gave him as token of esteem the society's gold medal, inscribed: Mussolini-Great Educator...
...grew by meeting real issues. He flayed cardplaying (bridge). He was alarmed by this new thing called movies, He flayed parents who let "boys 12 years old send flowers to little girls and go in carriages to escort them to balls." (He has now abandoned this gen- eral lire, doubtless because he finds the root-trouble is much deeper.) The man's fame grew by books, simple, devotional, polished. Largely distributed through the Y. M. C. A., The Manhood of the Master, The Meaning of Prayer and others have reached a total sale of some 1,000,000 copies...
...Pope last week was examining some plans for modernizing the papal summer palace at Castel Gandolfo in the hills back of Rome. Alterations will cost several million lire, much more than he now has to spend on such work. Uncomfortable though he is during Rome's summer, he prefers personal inconvenience to diverting sums from his church projects. With such thoughts he casually remarked: "Our successor will look after the execution of this plan...