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Last week the New York World glibly assigned a dramatic raison d'être to this rift in the Fascist lute. One John Lucas, who, from France or Switzerland, dashes off most of the World's alleged scoops of Italian news cabled:
One John Lucas, correspondent for the New York World, cabled a "scoop" last week from the town of Ventimiglia. Pounding furiously at his typewriter he wrote:
Christie's, smartest of London auction rooms, buzzed eagerly last week, as an auctioneer rapped to announce that he would sell the 61 ½%-carat diamond "Golden Dawn," since 1913 the property of its disc verer Captain C. R. Lucas, who found it near Kimberly, South Africa.
The first printed historical treatise on accounting, which is one of the rarest and earliest of business books, has been donated to the Business Historical Society, it was announced yesterday. This book, the "Summa de Arithmetica" by Fra Lucas Pacioli, was published in Venice in 1494. The volume is regarded...
Fra Lucas Pacioli took a great deal of the accounting information contained in his book from the educated Greek slaves who did the mathematical work of Italy during the Roman era. He makes no pretense of denying the source of his information, but assorts his statistics for carrying on business...