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Whanging a big dinner bell, the Premier rang to order in Rome the National Council of Corporations, destined, most Italians assume, to supplant the Chamber. In Italy corporazioni ("corporations") are the higher groups which represent the basic Fascist syndicates of employers and employes. Every Italian, whatever his business, trade or profession, is represented by and must pay dues to the local syndicate of his occupation. He need not belong to the syndicate but he is bound by the bargains it makes respecting his wages and working hours or-if he is an employer-respecting the wages he must...
Professor Hedges has been secured to carry on the work of Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History, who is absent on sabbatical leave. It is understood that this course will also supplant that of Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History on Manuscript materials on American Colonial History, which is to be omitted during the second half year...
...lists, the crushing taxes. He gasped fortnight ago when the Navy asked for its all-time high in budget appropriations: $190,400,000. The Government will not vote on the new budget until next winter. In the meantime it gave the Army and Navy free rein to try to supplant Citizen Sato's fear of taxes with another fear, more favorable to big Navy budgets. For three days last week Tokyo, the world's third biggest city, saw the biggest war games ever shown a capital in peacetime...
...spree, due to the erroneous impression that by taking insulin, dietary restrictions could be disregarded. This is wrong, and I think that your article fosters the idea. On the contrary, a Diabetic taking insulin must be more careful of his diet than when not taking it! Insulin does not supplant, but only aids diet in the control of Diabetes...
...shot: Dr. Held listening with growing interest to his wife's tirade at him for mussing her hair. The Barbarian (M e t r o-Goldwyn- Mayer) contains a personage whose type used to be almost as important in the cinema as the cowboy whom he helped to supplant. He is a sheik wearing a romantic turban, bedsheets and a polite but hungry leer. His name is Jamil (Ramon Novarro) and he is first seen functioning, for reasons of his own, as a guide to tourists in a Cairo hotel. When the proud but passionate fiancee (Myrna...