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...Camera warmed to its work with the presentation to Il Benito, amid stentorian cheers, of a sheaf of laurel-a token of the Deputies' relief at his escape from assassination (TIME...
Instantly La Camera quieted to a ringing hush. Cried Mussolini: "We are here to give a judical expression to the will of the Fascist Revolution. . . . Today, Fascismo is the only living force in Italy. . . . All else can be relegated to the museums!" Waving a sheaf of papers he exclaimed: "I have with me laws liquidating the past and establishing the base of Fascist power. ... It shall be for you to vote...
...they slipped upon his brittle digits. With eleven bracelets they circled his arms. They covered his waist with two girdles, from each of which hung a dagger, zestfully ornamented. They put the royal apron, inlaid with gold, around his pathetically bony legs. For his feet were golden sandals. A sheaf of gold tipped each toe and finger...
Before an assembly of the Central Commission of the Communist Party at Moscow, M. Stelmachovics, Soviet Secretary of Finance, presented last week an alarming sheaf of figures bearing upon the recent increase in embezzlements committed within the Soviet Union...
Suddenly a window on the second floor of the Palais flew up, and the chief foreign ministers of Europe announced that they had just initialed the Rhine pact and a sheaf of arbitration treaties! While candles all but showered the distinguished statesmen with sparks, Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister of France, and Hans Luther, Chancellor of Germany, beamed out upon the multitude, with the consciousness that seven years after the World War their countries had at last joined as equals in an accord for peace...