Word: reviewer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duce received the news in Sicily, where he had gone to review Italy's annual war games. On a triumphal tour of the island, he told cheering Sicilians that "the lush old days of the Roman Emperor Augustus" were the only fitting comparison with the Fascist regime. To the crowd jam-packing the public square of Syracuse he shouted that Italy was "ready for any struggle, prepared for any sacrifice & determined to snatch victory" at any cost. Then, remembering the recent improvement in Anglo-Italian relations, he stood on the prow of a dummy destroyer erected in Messina...
...long a law professor at Washington's Howard University, uncle of Federal Judge Hastie, father of Charles Hamilton Houston, special counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Judge Hastie and Son Houston are the only two Negroes ever to serve on the Harvard Law Review, and except for Dr. Leon A. Ransom of Washington, D. C., the only Negroes to earn Harvard Law's degree of Doctor of Juridical Science. Born in Mound City, Ill. "over 60 years ago," President Houston drives a Lincoln Zephyr, gloried in his last autumn's title, "Chairman...
...Liverpool Diocesan Review, the Right Rev. Albert Augustus David, Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, explained why baseball is "unsuited to the English temperament." Excerpts: "The backchat and calls of both players and spectators at a baseball match in America are something to be remembered when the play is forgotten. So far, English spectators of baseball have only learned the elementary calls of the game. If they ever learn the full phraseology of American baseball, we do not think "it will be long before its undesirable effects are seen at Association football matches...
MUCH OBLIGED FOR KIND REVIEW NORTHWEST PASSAGE [TIME, July 5] BUT WILL ALSO NEED WHOLESALE RATES ON BOMBPROOF SHELTERS UNLESS I CAN PERSUADE YOU TO SPEAK A FEW MORE WORDS IN MY BEHALF TO OUTRAGED HISTORIANS. YOU QUOTED ME AS SAYING NO COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF ANYTHING COULD BE OBTAINED FROM ANY ONE OR ANY TEN HISTORIES. I WILL BE DODGING SNIPERS THE REST OF MY LIFE UNLESS YOU EXPLAIN THAT THIS REMARK WHEN CARELESSLY EMITTED IN A PERSONAL LETTER TWO YEARS AGO APPLIED SPECIFICALLY TO THE BURGOYNE CAMPAIGNS OF 1776 AND 1777. ALSO OBLIGED TO DISCLAIM DEVELOPING GREAT IDEA...
Died. William Andrew Me Andrew, 73, famed educator, onetime (1924-28) Chicago Superintendent of Schools; in Mamaroneck, N. Y. The focus of William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson's clownish anti-British Mayoralty campaign of 1926, Michigan-born Educator McAndrew retired from teaching to edit the "Educational Review" in School & Society...