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...might have shown a preference in the naming of his earldom for some title as hoar in honor as the first half of that possessed by nouveau Lord Oxford and Asquith. Instead, little Freddy Smith, grown up into one of England's greatest barrister-statesmen proclaimed his origin by choosing the name of a city scarcely older than himself...
...Ministry of Corporations. He spent the day at Forli, his country estate (TIME, June 21) with Signora Rachele Mussolini (née Guidi) and their daughter Edda, now recovering from an attack of diphtheria. During the week, Signor Mussolini, once the loudest and most often vocal of European statesmen pursued his recent "policy of silence" (TIME, May 3) by issuing three written orders: Sicilian Riots. General di Giorgio to proceed at once to Sicily with an armed force and full authority to put down the seemingly concerted series of anti-Fascist riots which have been occurring recently in Palermo, Caltanisetta...
...drowsy, Berkshire-cradled Williamstown, Mass., there climbs panting, every Summer, a special train freighted with potent financiers, learned professors, bustling lesser statesmen and inevitable news gatherers. They are greeted by beaming President Harry A. Garfield of Williams College. For the space of a lunar month they constitute The Institute of Politics. Last week President Garfield opened the proceedings of the Institute as chairman for the sixth time, benevolently urged 300 delegates assembled for discussion to discuss. Present and discursive were: Paul Harvey, onetime editor of the one-time International Interpreter, who popped a revisional proposal for the Dawes Plan...
...last March, and the Clubs of Printing House Craftsmen (U. S. printing executives) waited until last week, to salute, in his 70th year, the author of practically all modern picture-printing processes - half tones, color plates, intaglio or "rotogravure." The author, in short, of the pictures of murderers and statesmen in the newspapers; of the sepia supplements and the ravishing hosiery advertisements; of the stunning magazine covers, richly illustrated natural histories, automobile catalogs and many more visual luxuries that are rushed today before the eyes of a sophisticated world. Frederick E. Ives was a Connecticut boy, who obtained a post...
Thus, with a candid vigor unusual in statesmen, President Plutarco Elias Calles of Mexico informed the press last week that the Roman Catholic Church (in 1859 reputedly possessed of one-third of all real and personal property in Mexico) would shortly be deprived of all Mexican property whatsoever and its priests expelled from Mexico, under the anti-religious statutes (TIME, July 26) promulgated to take effect July...