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...will boss the chairwomen of Italy's 12,000 female fasci. The prime tangible duty of their 200,000 members is to help run 50,000 Maternita e Infanzia clinics and many a hospital, which the Government subsidizes. To the poor women who come to the clinics and hospitals the women Fascists pass on Italy's peculiar kind of "feminism." Politically aggressive in other countries, feminism in Italy is politically self-effacing, advertises the beauties of motherhood and domesticity. It advises women factory workers to quit their jobs if possible, all women to grow "healthfully buxom," "give strong...
...Bianca, 35, is slim, aggressive and ambitious. She manages to dress smartly in clothes designed by Italian dressmakers. She spends part of every year with her Spanish-born mother-in-law in Madrid. Longtime head of the fascio in the Garbatella slum district of Rome, she helps many a poor family out of her own purse...
Next to Henry and Edsel Ford, the Czechoslovak family of Bat'a (pro- nounced Bahtya) continue to be the world's most vigorous "Fordizers." Fifty-seven years ago the spouse of a poor cobbler in Zlin bore Thomas Bat'a. In a heroic life of mechanized striving he made Zlin the "Shoe Capital" of Europe. Because, like Henry Ford, he profoundly mistrusted financiers, Thomas Bat'a took fanatical care to remain the First Working Partner in a partnership which embraced all his employes. No one outside the partnership may own Bat'a stock. In Zlin...
...unknowing summer school belles. On the opening day four girls noticing the strange odor of melon went sniffing around Stoughton Hall until they traced the source to a half-empty bottle of Golden Wedding Rye. The four indignant maidens hastily disposed of the offending liquid. Either the whiskey was poor or lese there is something rotten in Pembroke, or perhaps Brown does not coach its women...
...present stewards have recently done well by the strawberry trade, and the students quickly tired of the new regime. They crowded around the Steward's rooms and set up loud bleatings and baaings until the offending lamb was varied with other meats and vegetables. But the food continued poor in quality, and the "Butter Rebellion' 'was soon under way. Tutors were hissed day and night and indignation meetings were held in the holy precincts of Holden Chapel where it was resolved that "the Butter Stinketh to Heaven," and it was declared unfit even to lbricate cart-wheels...