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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign Financing. At Rome Dictator Mussolini watched the sale in Manhattan last week of $30,000,000 City of Rome bonds. He wants the money to accomplish his housing schemes and to finance some public utilities. (The U. S. has loaned somewhat more than a billion dollars during each of the past four years to foreign governments, municipalities, industries. Last week the cities of Milan, Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade were preparing specifications for U. S. loans...
...Exclamation marks are sometimes effective] ... Women's clubs, churches, teachers and all decent folk in general owe it to themselves to face the facts- the sinister facts, as set forth by Frederic F. Van de Water in 'The Obscene Drama' in the April issue now on sale, ten cents...
Taking his share of the capital and "handsome profit" derived by the sale of the Birmingham Age-Herald (TIME, March 21) Frederick I. Thompson, publisher of all the newspapers in Mobile, Ala., last week bought an Evening Times, and thereby became publisher of all the evening newspapers in his state's capital, Montgomery. He merged the Evening Times with his Montgomery Evening Journal. Publisher Thompson's onetime partners in Birmingham, onetime Governor Braxton Bragg Comer and son Donald Comer, were not associated with him in the new purchase, their interest in newspapers having been purely industria-political. Save...
...type Is suggested, but rather flat and insignificant figures glimpsed through the blurring lens of gen- erality. A man of little skill with words, he gets his effects with pa- tience and a hammer. To his famed Sorrel and Son he attached a long-burning fuse and its sale now exceeds 100,000. This latest book is interesting if only because it too may contain that element, for critics still undefined, which gives a book enormous popular appeal...
...copies offered to the public were snapped up at 30 guineas ($150) apiece; but the book cost 90 guineas per copy to produce and so Mr. Lawrence went bankrupt. The present edition is to recoup this bankruptcy. The original work, called The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, is now on sale in a minute U. S. edition at $20,003 a copy;? and the present volume is a very drastic abridgment...