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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spirit. "To the tens of thousands of production slaves out of whose very hides are tanned the hundreds of millions of Ford profits, he is looked upon as a mean, heartless miser and a hypocrite par excellence. A great spirit permeates the Ford organization (from the foremen up) known as the 'Ford spirit...
That being athletic and possessing such intelligence as is necessary for the cultivation of good taste are not mutually exclusive was shown by the high scholarship of the football team last fall, and the basketball team this winter. On the other hand, that aestheticism does not mean bloodlessness is shown by the numerous acknowledged aesthetes deeply interested in outdoors in general and the work of Cabin and Trail in particular...
...From his mountain stronghold, he has frowned upon Fascism, or has been thought to frown. Nobody really knows. Not even a principality cleared the situation. At one moment, he appears solidly against Fascism, at another indifferent. The meeting between the great pair was therefore not unreasonably taken to mean that d'Annunzio had smiled upon Fascism; and that from this would follow a call to all Italians for peace and brotherhood. Certainly, this notion was backed by the word of d'Annunzio who, in a speech to wounded soldiers during Mussolini's visit, said...
...What does this meeting mean? What language does it speak to you and all Italians? It means an appeal for concord, addressed to all those who bore arms for their country. It speaks the language of peace to all Italians who suffered in the long war. We must again find the luminary symbol of love and make it the lodestar of our destiny. We must always remember the sacrifices we all sustained, not forgetting for a single moment the brotherhood of blood which united all soldiers in the trenches. To disarm among men of the same blood means...
...entire Freshman class faces today the prospect of being placed on probation as a result of its riotous action, which was started, as nearly as can be established, in celebration of the end of classes for the college year. Such a probationary measure would mean the recall to New Haven of the Freshman crew from Gales Ferry, where it is in practice for the race with the Crimson Freshmen...