Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nearly unseated Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, himself suspected of ordering the crime (TIME, June 23, 1924 et seq.). With the Dictator for once scared and shaky, the King was able to insist that Deputy Luigi Federzoni be made Minister of Home Affairs in charge of the police. Smart guessers think they know that Faithful Federzoni then obtained evidence which he and King Vittorio Emanuele held over Il Duce for years afterwards. Eventually however the Dictator felt strong enough to possess himself of the Ministry of Home Affairs, giving the Ministry of Colonies to Federzoni...
...this will come. I think it must come through Spirituality, through the awakening of all Russians to universal oneness with the Spirit Supreme. . . . That is my doctrine, the subject of my books and lectures. . . When that awakening has taken place Russia will have found herself. Then there may be a Head-some one man above others (gesturing in the air)-but perhaps very different from the Tsar. What will it matter, then...
There are flippants who think of Ossip Gabrilowitsch as the little conductor with the highest collar in the world. There are others who know him better-as the Russian pianist who came to the U. S. and married Clara Clemens, Mark Twain's daughter, or as the conductor who went to Detroit and built up an orchestra there...
...forced him to reorganize his activities. He did so and had time to write his books. In 1910 he wrote three, last year three and in between a half dozen others. They, more than the works of any other recent writer, have served to make unspecialized readers think scientifically...
...Edwin Cornelius Broome, superintendent of Philadelphia public schools, was made chairman. Last fortnight, Dr. Broome spoke. Oracular, he seemed to mean more than he said when he said: "It is the unanimous conviction of the committee that the function of the school is to teach children how to think, not what to think. It is not right to indoctrinate the minds of young people with either one side or the other of controversial questions. It is not right to use in the schools material which seeks to advertise or bring profit to any agency in the community...