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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned Italy from a second-rate Kingdom to a first-rate Empire in three months of 1936? Mussolini deserves your Man of the Year recognition...
...provided almost unparalleled conveniences for its inhabitants. It had approximately one saloon for every 220 citizens, male and female, infantile, adult and senile. Its facilities for gambling and original sin were on a similar scale. In this situation a 33-year-old lawyer made a difficult decision. He was rated one of the ablest young men at the Buffalo bar, had been assistant district attorney and might well have looked forward to an election as district attorney or even to Congress. But he decided to run for the hack job of Sheriff of Erie County. Doing so meant giving...
...nearest solution to this problem has been utilized by Eliot House to a remarkable degree of efficiency and popularity. This consists in a personal, room-to-room canvass by members of the house committee who collect exactly one-half of one percent of the annual room-rent. This rate has been judged both fair by the residents and ample for running expenses by the financial boards. The collection is a bit more tedious than in other houses but the degree of surety is much greater, the interest spread in the workings of the House committee is far wider...
Among first-rate British writers of the immediate past, the reputation of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham has dimmed more rapidly than that of any of his long-lived literary generation. Vaguely known to many as a friend of Conrad and W. H. Hudson, to a few admirers as the best writer in English on South America, his death last March evoked little more than the perfunctory tributes, compounded of respect and surprise, that seem to be reserved for literary figures who are generally thought to have been dead for years. But Cunninghame Graham was no mere Victorian period piece surviving...
Figuring that the chronometer cost $15, or at the rate of about 62 cents per hour, and considering the weight of its lick, it would appear that he has not done so badly for himself...