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...ever-present charm and vigor and enthusiasm endeared...
...Read with attention an open letter from Premier Baldwin to a Conservative by-election candidate in which the Government's attitude toward Communism in industry was stated with unusual vigor: "Tha plan of the Communists ... is to promote industrial unrest with the intention of driving the workers into increasing misery and discontent until, in sheer despair, they revolt. . . . This is as cruel and callous a policy as any of which I have ever heard. ... It must be stopped. We must prevent thE Communists from misusing the power of the trade unions for their wicked ends. We have no intention...
...already teeming Italians upon their frontiers. Does this mean that he envisions a war of conquest for new territory? Last week U. S. newsgatherers asked him this question as tactfully as they could. Instead of returning them a glare for their pains, II Duce, ruddy with health and vigor, seemingly in the best of humors, sketched his professed idea of how Italy is to expand without fighting. Said...
...democracy and for the preparation, through the study of such problems, of those who are to administer the schools of the country and to teach in them, could go forward under no better auspices. Nor is it granted to many institutions to rejoice in the health and vigor of such a patron at eighty-eight, nor in the happy prospect of his long continued activity...
...spend more time on the prefaces to my plays than on the plays themselves, and I prefer my reputation as philsopher to that as dramatist. I am, as everyone knows, a vegetarian, and a total abstainer from tobacco, alcohol and soap. To these denials I attribute my present vigor at 70. I am now engaged upon a new play, to be called Vegetariana. For a young girl dying of an obscure malady, doctors prescribe beefsteaks; she does not improve. The doctors prescribe Africa, but with all the comforts of civilization, she does hot improve. There the play ends. Asked what...