Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manufacture. Fascist authorities scented propaganda. Last week, armed with orders from the Italian Department of the Interior (Italy's Department of the Interior: Benito Mussolini), black-shirted, truncheon-swinging Fascist Militia raided bookstores, bundled all editions of the works of Gorky, Gogol, Dostoievski, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, and even Jack London into vans. Official reason: "Low-priced editions of these works have injured the sale of books by modern Italian writers. They often contain seed for Communist propaganda...
Last week Prince Peter of Montenegro arrived in England with his fair wife Violet Emily Wagner, British-born music hall dancer whom he married five years ago. In London he smiled while she pushed through a crowd of welcoming potentates, to grab, hug and kiss her father, a onetime London detective sergeant. Said the prince, beaming upon his wife: "There is no woman who can equal the English blond, and I have chosen the best...
...resulting duplicity, which naturally extends into the bedroom of the banker's wife, prompts Sir Clive Heathcote of Scotland Yard to remark: "This is the greatest case the Yard has ever known!" The acting is bad. There are, however, some splendid sets-in a convent, a castle, London's Embassy Club-by a person named Yellenti, and an equally decorative heroine named Phoebe Foster...
...friend. As the Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago in 1893, he opened Chicago offices as a consulting engineer. Chicago has been his headquarters ever since. Thence he has traveled to design and build great bridges at Portland, Ore., St. Louis, Que bec, Toledo, Keokuk, Iowa, Celilo, Ore., Cincinnati, New London, Conn., Philadelphia, Memphis, Manhattan. He is now building one at Louisville. For his genius at bridge building one scientific society after another has granted him medals and prizes of honor: Franklin Institute (Potts and Franklin medals), Paris 1900 Exposition, Louisiana Purchase 1904 Exposition, Institute of Architects. Last week the four...
Champions of Mr. Eastman could say that, like the Rockefellers, he is spreading his philanthropies internationally. Two years ago, when after his African camera-hunting trip he visited London as guest of Baron Riddell and Sir Philip Sassoon, Prince of Wales's crony, he saw that the city needed a first-rate U. S.-type dental clinic, he donated $1,300,000 as a "mark of affection and admiration for the British people...