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...student. Operating from a bland house about 30 minutes north of Pristina, he has made a reputation for himself by holding off violent Serb attacks, although not without casualties. But after years of Serbian repression, there is no shortage of young men willing to die for independence. Says Mohamet Latifi, a soldier serving under Remi: "If someone attacked your house, would you run away or would you defend...
...Mohamet Koko di Korese is a 27-year-old Ethiopian who. having entered the U. S. illegally in 1926, promptly devoted himself so wholeheartedly to drunkenness, disorderly conduct and burglary that he served three terms in jail. Last January, the Department of Labor decided to deport Mohamet Koko di Korese. Since the Ethiopian Government no longer exists, it was necessary to apply to the Italian Consulate for his travel documents, thus, in effect, recognizing Italian sovereignty over Ethiopia. Last week, two Ellis Island guards tucked Mohamet Koko di Korese in a third class cabin on the Rex, booked, via Italy...
...above is true because in 1793 a boy was born who was destined to become one of America's greatest literary figures, called Washington Irving. He was one of the most versatile figures in the country's literature. An ambassador to Spain, a biographer of Mohamet, of Washington, an essayist of some eminence, a lawyer of none, the coiner of the phrase, "the almighty dollar," all these things he was. For delicacy and precision of style he has few superiors in America. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "The Alhambra" show a grace and beauty that is carefully wrought, while...
...benefit for the practical business man. Yet here is a railroad coming to not one but several universities with the object of clearing up a little matter of grammar: the fact that the universities furnished no satisfaction has nothing to do with the case--the mountain did come to Mohamet. Time was when the complete equipment for a railroad magnate's desk consisted of an atlas, a silver spike, and a box of coronas; now one must have at least Roget's Thesaurus and the Encyclopedia Brittanica. The influence of the cloisters is unmistakable. Time-tables may prove unsolvable enigmas...
Died. Abbas Hilmi Pasha, Grand Vizier of Turkey under Sultans Abdul Hamid and Mohamet V, in Vienna. In command of a division during the Balkan War in 1912, he tried to stop the panic among his men at Kirkkilisseh by having them shot down...
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