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...Premier was defeat for the Minister of War. Mussolini covered his own retreat to a better position, but left his rear guard, Di Giorgio, slain on the field. The virtual effect of the offer of delay was to withdraw the Reform Bill and General di Giorgio was prompt to resign. His resignation was accepted; and. Premier Mus- solini, who is also Minister of Foreign Affairs, became Minister of War ad interim...
...days, has lately branched into a new field of endeavor which shows they have been reading Popular Mechanics in addition to their old favorite Gazette. Spring fever got in the bones of the department and the order went out from headquarters to sweep down the gutters. As usual, prompt execution trod on the heels of the cleansing ukase. Supplied with bright new brooms, the clean-up squad arrived to find that certain streets below Massachusetts Avenue were lined with automobiles. Thereupon, the law enforcers cleverly realized that it might be well first to remove the cars. But what consternation pervaded...
Communists. With the usual fanfaronade of red talk and red flags, the Communists were prompt to nominate one Comrade Thalmann as their candidate for the Presidency but, as far as could be discovered from despatches, no anti-Communist was worrying...
...which explains the intellectual superiority of the Monarchist over the antiMonarchist Parties. Recently, Republican Judge Kroner, referring to the Ebert libel suit (TIME, Jan. 5), said a ruling of Monarchist Judge Bewersdorff was "malignant, vulgar, cowardly and impudent." The latter did not take these hard words kindly and was prompt to institute legal proceedings against his Republican colleague. Last week, the case was tried before a Monarchist Judge, who had previously declared that Judge Kroner deserved to be jailed. The case could have but one ending and that ending it had: Judge Kroner was found guilty, was fined...
...stromy term at the head of this famous institution the eyes of the nation were focused on him. Newspapers and magazines throughout the country recorded, with attitudes varying from admiration to hatred, his achievements in this position. His indictment by the Westchester Country Grand Jury in 1913 and the prompt dismissal of the case by the judge in charge, increased his reputation, but he resigned his wardenship soon after ward...