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When Signor Mussolini appeared on a balcony of the Palazzo Vecchio to speak he was announced to the Florentine populace by two heralds in red and white medieval costume who put long brass trumpets to their lips and blew a blast heard a halfmile away. Last week Il Duce even carried his blasting to Paris. For the Petit Parisien he wrote an article attacking by implication Statesman Briand's dearest hobby and pet scheme, his projected European Union or "United States of Europe" (TIME, Sept...
...crate on a motor truck. The truck went aboard the ferryboat Nassau. The motion of the ferry excited the bull. It hooked at the crate's slats, then hurled its 1,200 lbs. against the end boards, burst through, charged the truck driver and the ferry's brass-buttoned mate. All passengers and the mate fled to the top deck, leaving the bull snorting and plunging below. Came a crash of glass and a mighty splash-the animal diving through a window into the choppy harbor...
...because of shrewd selling, economic, efficient manufacturing. Today the company has nine factories in the U. S., Canada, England. It manufactures more than 30,000 items, divided roughly into four categories: plumbing fixtures & supplies, heating equipment & supplies, valves & fittings, steam & water works supplies. The largest selling Crane products are brass, iron, steel valves & fittings, although most famed throughout the land are its much advertised colored bathrooms. The company last year earned...
...children at the end of the room and tried to get at the trigger to shoot his wife. He grabbed my hand and in the struggle the gun, for a cause unknown to me, went off and shot Gillard. Another lie of yours is that I have a brass plate on the dining room floor with "To The Memory of a Faithful Servitor...
...Publisher Byoir became the best known, most universally liked American in Cuba, confidant alike of President Gerardo Machado y Morales and Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez of Havana. U. S. investors in Cuba visit Minister Harry Frank Guggenheim first as a matter of form. When their business gets down to brass tacks they "see Byoir," who now almost amounts to President Machado's Department of Commerce...