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Mussolini believes that he made his way from a village workman to Prime Minister by years of intensive study of history and philosophy. The result of that belief is a return to classicism in Italy. Children of eleven study Latin in the public schools. Character, intellectual ability and artistic taste, rather than what is believed to be the American ideal of power to make money, are the objectives. Ancient Greece and Rome are the means...
...Siberia (1887-1892) for alleged complicity in a plot to assassinate the Tzar. His sympathy became definitely socialist after this and he was active in many movements for the emancipation of Poland, and soon became the leader of the Socialist party at Lodz. Here he founded the Kobotnik (Workman) - still the organ of the Socialist Party in Poland. After searching vainly for years, the Russian police discovered the headquarters of the paper. Pilsudski and his wife were implicated. He was arrested and imprisoned in the citadel of Warsaw, but feigned insanity so successfully that he was removed to an asylum...
...beauty, how do they live ? " An example: "... a man, let us say, with two children and in good health, has managed to get a Government position at 400,000 marks a month ($8.20). This is an exceptionally good salary and is a trifle better than that of a skilled workman in unoccupied Germany. " His rent for a four-room apartment is about 60 cents a month. But coal . . . consumes 90,000 marks ($1.84) or nearly a quarter of his income. . . . Food for four people . . . would come to 10,000 marks a day (20 cents), or during the month three-quarters...
...with The Masses and The Liberator, but he likes to feel that his active editorial days are past. He has also written essays, poetry, plays, criticism. Two general books, one of them the excellent Were Ton, Ever a Child? were published before his first novel. Dell is a conscientious workman and a profound student of psychology. He has taught himself to write well and he is forever striving to learn more. I have always felt that he will one day rank as a major American novelist...
Anna Gluzman, 25, Russian " shooting judge ": "I am thus described by American newspapers: 'A cigarette held firmly between tight lips, fire of enthusiasm in brown eyes, slim, short, brown wavy bobbed hair parted on the side like a man's, jaw stern. Rough high boots, black skirt, workman's blouse, old brown sweater, only ornament a Communist badge...