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...afford to do otherwise that the White House took pains to emphasize that he was still "open-minded" and would "study the bill thoroughly" before acting upon it. That was to say, President Hoover would do no less on the Tariff Bill than he does on all legislation-refer it to the interested departments, in this case Treasury and Commerce, for technical opinions. If the President should choose to veto the bill, he would count on Secretaries Mellon and Lamont to supply him with expert reasons for so doing...
...long as one employs suave and gentlemanly terms. But even to utter the word "Mussolini" aloud in a public place causes consternation. Members of the English-speaking colony at Rome take no chances that an Italian might misunderstand them to be speaking ill of Il Duce. Shrewd, they generally refer to Benito Mussolini in public conversation as "Mr. Smith" or "Aunt...
...untrue version, but they are deliberately and wickedly interpreted. It is true that no other publication in the United States parallels yours TIME; but honestly, none ventures so impudently to misrepresent the events and try to alter and mystify the American public opinion about Italy. I chiefly refer to three of your late issues, which I have present, those of Nov. 25, 1929, April 28 and May 5, 1930, filled with fantasticalities, all tried later by facts. For instance, you say (April 28, p. 22) that King Victor Emmanuel was not wedded in Church. I can assure you that...
...Editor Biasi reread the April 28 issue. The word "sire" is used clearly to refer to Benito Mussolini's father, not his sovereign. Nothing is said about the marriage of Italy's King...
Next morning Dr. Work gave political punsters a chance to refer to logrolling when he stepped on an infirm tree bole, was twirled upside down and doused in the cold stream...