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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last seven and a half years is as well-known to the Republican candidate for President as to any other man in the United States. Nobody will deny that. Mr. Hoover sat in the Cabinet for seven and a half years, yet I search in vain for any word from him of protest, of condemnation or of repudiation of this black chapter in his party's history. On the contrary, in the face of that record, in his speech of acceptance he said...
...Governor (mayor) of Rome who resigned, last week, is Prince Ludovico Spada Potenziani, famed because he was visited by and returned the visit of New York's Mayor James ("Jimmy") Walker. Tall, bronzed, cadaverous and silent, Prince Potenziani left his office for the last time without a word to subordinates, merely saluting them in Fascist fashion, with his right arm inclined upward and forward...
...typically Fascist tax levies upon each English word displayed upon an advertising sign to attract tourists. Thus an innkeeper is taxed for two English words if he displays over his Alberso the sign "Grand Hotel...
Correspondents reported last week only one Roman shopkeeper who continues to pay a three word tax on the name of his hairdressing shop: "The Ladies' Toilette...
...Cochran. The fire was The Press. The singeing was an incident in August 1926, when Mr. Cochran, sailing for Europe, was reported by a ship news reporter as having said that General Motors stock would go higher, much higher. Wall Street, on reading the word of Mr. Cochran, promptly sent General Motors skyrocketing to a then-record-high...