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...which he held at the time of his death. To Dzerzhinsky-in the opinion of virtually all foreign correspondents at Moscow-belongs almost the sole credit for having inculcated a spirit kindred to "efficiency" into sluggard Soviet industry. Working in sympathy with Trotzsky-also "a practical man"-he has striven literally day and night to combat the visionary, theoretical Marxism which is the chief curse of the Soviets...
...report points out however, that there is inherent in the plan a serious danger that Harvard students may be reduced to a type by excluding "the unassimilables" too largely. "In securing the necessary limitation of enrolment, therefore, the great object to be striven for is to avoid all extremes and preserve a certain proportion between all more or less "unassailable" groups. There should not be more than ten per cent of the latter at the most...
...decine, Membre de l'Academie de Médecine, Officier de la Legion d' Honneur, Dean of the Chamber, arose and literally diverted his peers with a baby's "comforter." Said he in a fine burst of oratory: "For two years-two years!- have striven for the opportunity which is now mine. During that time and for years previously many of the infants of France have teethed upon a vile form of rubber nipple attached to a ring. In short upon a sucette...
...causes thereof are painted in glowing colors by two English writers in a book written after a tour of investigation in the United States. A leading editorial in The Observer enumerates nine reasons accounting for this condition. They include many of the ideals for which labor reformers have long striven without knowing they have been attained until apprised of the fact by an English book. Promotion in America is by merit; employers are, not hostile tonight wages and they seek continually to surround their workers with cleanliness and right. Every effort is made to provide conveniences which will increase...
...will have it that the welfare of "Italia bella"* was and is the one object which he has always passionately striven to advance. Before the War he believed that he had found among the Socialists the men who were trying to rescue Italy from her "misgovernment." Then the War precipitated a crisis ip which the Socialists wanted international "peace at any price," whereas Mussolini eventually came to feel that the national glory of Italy demanded that she should fight?expand. He rushed off to fight. He obeyed an officer who commanded him to fire "just once more" a trench-mortar...