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...driver of harness horses ; after long illness; in Cleveland. As a 16-year-old, Caton drove at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, was straightway hired by the late Tsar of Russia. After eleven years at the royal reins he signed with a Russian nobleman at an unheard-of guarantee ($20,000 a year and 15% of his winnings). Captured by Bolsheviks in 1917, he worked as a prisoner on a model stock farm. After three years he returned to the U.S.; won the 1932 Hambletonian ; rolled his employers' total purses...
Recently there were signs that others were not so impressed with the Duce's doings. Editors, including the intellectual apologist Giuseppe Bottai, stayed in office despite criticisms of the Fascist regime unheard of before the war. Bottai used an oblique technique of presenting "demands from the soul of Italy," for which he personally would take no responsibility. One of these demands was for "competent political government, inspired as far as possible by a sincere desire to serve," another for "more vigorous progress toward social justice...
When Nelson testified that he had granted Jeffers the priority because rubber production was more important than anything else last December, his statement went almost unheard...
...face of the A.P. thunder, until Professor Chafee spoke, neutral voices have been feeble and almost unheard. There have been a few articles, in small circulation publications like Harper's Magazine and The Nation. That...
Pedro Figari, well known in the La Plata capitals and European art circles, almost unheard-of in North America* never had any academic training. Born in Uruguay in 1861 of Italian parentage, he studied law, traveled in Europe, served in the Montevideo Parliament, in 1900 became attorney for the Bank of the Republic...