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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harry S. New, Postmaster General, was dictating letters last week. Upon the word "Come-at-able," his stenographer was "stumped," puzzled. "Come-at-able," explained Mr. New, "means 'approachable'; it is a companion word to the old Hoosier 'get-at-able...
Perhaps a quiet word passed between Dictator Mussolini and the Count that Il Duce will strive to bring France and Britain round to permitting the restoration of a Habsburg king in Hungary, something Hungarians ardently desire (TIME, Nov. 29, Jan. 24). Since the time is not ripe for airing that project, however, all that Il Duce gave Count Bethlen last week by way of a "bonus" in black and white was an Italian note announcing that the Government of Italy will take steps to arrange with the Government of Jugoslavia for the reduced duty passage through Jugoslavia of Hungarian goods...
...Austen, cool, said: "I do not feel it my duty as apparently the Honorable Member does, to doubt the word of British representatives in China." Up and down England the fact was apparent that British news from China is becoming a medium for political manipulation and strife...
...community has a right to look for enlightened spiritual guidance are scrambling to exploit childhood in the hope of profits as illicit, of their kind, as any ever wrung by a conscienceless manufacturer from the labor of children at the loom. In the name of evangelism - that sacred word that has been defiled so often that it is at last almost a common butt - this horrible thing is being done." Readers wondered what the Christian Century was driving at. The author of the piece quickly made it clear that he was discussing the case of 14-year-old Uldine Utley...
...Mussolini for another plane in which to carry on, for the glory of Fascismo, his four-continent itinerary, of which there remained to be completed a flight to the Pacific coast and up it to Seattle, thence east via Chicago, New York, Boston, Newfoundland and the Azores to Rome. Word came back that an identical ship would reach New York late this month, ready...