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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feminist must be aware that the reason, and the sole reason, why women have retained any hold on such posts is economic. They are permitted to do a man's work because they do it more cheaply. The reason they are able to sell their labor at a lower price is because women in general receive a measure of protection and assistance from modern society which is not accorded in like measure...
...trans-Pyrenean railway was dedicated. The engineering feat can only be called epochal. For two milleniums and more, Emperors, Kings, men and freight have gone around the Pyrenees. Now at last the railroad has climbed and pierced through. Roadways wind interminably up the Pyrenees and over passes, none lower than 5,000 feet; but these trails are more fit for mountain goats than motorcycles and quite impracticable for the average motor car or truck. The late Emperor of the French, Napoleon...
When grilled by counsel for Scotland Yard as to how he, as a father, could possibly justify such an attitude, Mr. Savidge made a sturdy, forthright reply which could only have come from a lower class Briton who knows that he may never aspire even to the rank of gentleman...
Last week, Count Volpi resigned as Finance Minister. He is known to have incurred the ire of Il Duce on several occasions-notably when he insisted that the lira be put back on gold at a lower valuation than that at first desired by Signor Mussolini. But from this it must not be rashly assumed that Count Volpi was "asked to resign." The irritable Duce has in other moods given his Finance Minister to understand that he must resist certain highly lucrative offers from the sphere of private business which have become especially tempting of late...
Hats. Cavanagh-Dobbs, Inc. (fine hats) purchased Sunfast Hats, Inc., of Danbury, Conn., with the idea of adding lower-priced hats to its family...