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Every time Signer Grandi almost had the problem solved, bang would go something or someone-frequently Dictator Benito Mussolini. Two months ago, however, II Duce radioed to the World his basic love of Peace (TIME, Jan. 26). He has kept quiet ever since. Signor Grandi, working quietly with British and French undersecretaries, finally reached the point where he could bring to Rome last week in the role of "honest brokers" British Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson and First Lord of the British Admiralty Albert V. Alexander. After the very briefest visit, after a most cordial audience with Peace-Announcer Mussolini...
Calling upon kindred spirits in all nations to rally to the banner of "Futurist food," Signer Marinetti somewhat further defined this rather vague conception: "The whole world must wake up and invent Futurist lunches and dinners. We must begin with abolishing volume and weight in our food and we must get up a new Futurist mixture which will consist in mixing only the nutritious parts of the food according as scientists will have to discover. . . . The deliciousness of food must be 'immensified' so as to comprise a sensation of all the joys in the universe...
Your Jan. 12 issue reported a statement by Filippo Tomaso Marinetti, citizen of Italy and disciple of Fascism, inveighing against spaghetti and other wheat paste products as inducing "torpor and pessimism." Signer Marinetti proposed to reduce the consumption of macaroni, spaghetti and kindred foods whose popularity now necessitates the importation of considerable quantities of wheat, as well as the finished product, chiefly from America. His plan involved the substitution of synthetic foods, on the basis that macaroni products are not "sufficiently dynamic" for hardy patriots...
...York Sun). Or if the present-day lawmakers and tax experts are to be taken to task, it is yet true that New Hampshire, one of the 13 Original States (which-neighboring Maine & Vermont were not) has given the U. S. many a famed statesman. Among them: Josiah Bartlett, "Signer"; Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln; Governor John A. Dix of New York; Governors Butler, Cox of Massachusetts ; Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks; U. S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone; Major General Leonard Wood...
...Maharaja of Bikaner, Maj-General His Highness Sir Ganga Singhji Bahadur (Signer for India of the Treaty of Versailles, member of His Majesty's Imperial War Cabinet, veteran of the World War, repeatedly decorated by Edward VII and George V, Hon. LL.D. Cambridge and Edinburgh, D.C.L. Oxford, Freeman of the Cities of London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol...