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Once roused, Signer Mussolini continued volubly: "I will never tolerate civil officials or military officers with long* beards or whiskers. It is said that all wise men and saints of old wore flowing whiskers; but in the end they were cast into prisons or driven to live in caves. . . . You cannot show me one man who became world-great while wearing long whiskers. It is impossible...
...such was the reason for the French demonstration, it came pat to the second; for last week Rumanians were still overjoyed at the support given them by Signer Mussolini against Russia- (TIME, March 21). So popular grew II Duce in Rumania that last week one of the streets in Bucharest was renamed after him. Rumanian Deputies contributed out of their own pockets to set up a Mussolini statue at Kishinev, chief town of Bessarabia...
...concensus of reports to date: 1) During November, Undersecretary for Aviation Italo Balbo and General Emilio De Bono, Governor of Tripolitania, perfected the details of the plot. (They with Signer Mussolini led the famed march on Rome [1922] which brought Fascismo into power.) 2) A letter from General De Bono to Secretary Balbo concerning the plot fell into the hands of General Pietro Badoglio, the Army Chief of Staff, and a staunch, loyal monarchist. 3) General Badoglio promptly called a cavalry regiment and two artillery regiments to Rome, ordered them to guard King Vittorio Emanuele and the royal family...
...Authors Oliver Wendell Holmes, Eugene Sue, Victorien Sardou, Tobias Smollett, Dr. David Ramsay, were first doctors ; and Dr. Benjamin Rush was a signer of the Declaration of Independence...
...that Europe was finished and American domination of the world had begun. A man without a church* he wrote "Jesus: A Myth" in 1925 (TIME, Sept. 20). Died. Elbridge Thomas Gerry, 89, father of Rhode Island Senator Peter Goelet Gerry, and grandson of U. S. Vice President Elbridge Gerry, signer of: the Declaration of Independence; of heart failure following a broken hip, in Manhattan. As onetime president of the New York Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, he deplored the fact that he inspired fear in juvenile delinquents and was known as the dreaded "Gerry Man." When this idea...