Word: winging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mussolini ponders a plan to form a National Industrial Federation, which would be composed of seven large corporations. The object of the proposal is to give equal rights to employers and employed in the management of industry, and so mollify the Red Shirts (Labor) at present under the protective wing of Gabriele d'Annunzio. The plan will be worked out "to benefit not only capital and labor, but industry and the State...
...Each of the Clubs has now won two of the four debates held this year. Mr. E. R. Gay '19, Assistant Dean of the College, presided at the meeting, and, after stating the rules of order which should be observed, recognized F. A. O. Schwarz '24 of the Progressive Wing who proposed that the Debating Union should support the entrance of the United States into the following four reservations suggested by Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes Hon. '10: (1) the Court shall have no compulsory jurisdiction over the United States; (2) the United States shall have an equal share...
...accordance with the plan which was used at the last meeting, there will be three divisions in the seating tonight. At the extreme right of the presiding officer, the members of the Conservative Club will sit, while the Progressive wing will occupy the left. The center section will be reserved for the audience, which will sit on the left or right side of this division according to their Progressive or Conservative tendencies. During the open discussion following the regular speeches, Mr. Gay will alternate between the two sides in recognizing speakers. Anyone wishing to leave during the course...
...entire right wing of Congress, including reactionaries and clericals, are united in favoring an absolute regime on the model of the Mussolini Government in Italy...
...airplane incorporates many unique features of construction. It is built almost entirely of metal, which is rapidly superseding wood in the construction of aircraft. Each wing, instead of having two main strength members known as " spars," has a number of such spars which divide up the load between them. Since one or more of these spars can be pierced without the entire wing failing, invulnerability to shrapnel fire is secured. Another valuable feature is the wing cooling or radiation system. Instead of the ordinary automobile type of radiator, which increases the air resistance, the cooling water is pumped through small...