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Since the Year One (of Fascism-1922) Benito Mussolini had given his people a martial slogan: "Believe! Obey! Fight!" He hurried from naval reviews to maneuvers at sea, from military exercises to parades to grandiose mock campaigns on land. He learned to salute like Caesar, scowl like Napoleon, wear uniforms like the Kaiser. Of all his Cabinet portfolios, his favorites were those of War, Navy, Air Force. He raised a whole generation of young Italians-among them his own sons -to live dangerously, to consider pacifism a bourgeois vice, to take sensuous, esthetic pleasure from the pattern of exploding bombs...
...Athlete. Napoleon Bonaparte rode his power for a span of just less than 20 years. Benito Mussolini has been in the saddle 18. He is getting on, and he knows it. If he is ever to lead a Roman triumph up the Quirinal, it must be soon...
Trustee No. 2, of second company, "Corp." (which swings the system), is Chairman Denis J. Driscoll of Pennsylvania's Public Utilities Commission. Former Congressman Driscoll helped run the 1935 lobbying investigation which brought Associated's Napoleon, Howard C. Hopson, out into the open. To him goes credit for having dug up "little Elmer," the Warren (Pa.) Western Union messenger boy who caught his boss getting names out of the phone book (at the instance of Associated), to sign to indignant telegrams to Washington demanding that the holding-company bill be defeated. To Trustee Driscoll will...
...Mytyl's father, a poor woodcutter in the play, has become a Tyrolese patriot about to join Andreas Hofer against Napoleon Bonaparte...
Other courses of the Commission opening in the first week of February will be: "The History of France Since Napoleon," Assistant Professor Donald C. McKay, Tuesday and Fridays at 7:30 o'clock, starting Feb. 6. Emerson Hall; "Psychology of Personality." Professor Wayland F. Vaughan. Boston University, Mondays and Thursdays 7:30 o'clock, starting Feb. 5, Emerson Hall; and "General Zoology," Assistant professor Frank M. Carpenter, Saturdays at 10 a.m., beginning Feb. 3, at the Biological Laboratories...