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...America. There must be enough fuel left, for the glory of Fascismo. Commander de Pinedo circled the island, so that he might know it well, then flew ahead. He had been flying since an African moon flooded Porto Praya in the Cape Verde Islands the midnight before. Off the coast of Brazil the South Atlantic looked angry. The seas became swaying mountains. Fascismo is brave but not foolhardy. If one should have to land now, all glory would be drowned. Commander De Pinedo swung back to Fernando Noronha to spend the night. A rough landing necessitated minor repairs but next...
...Smoker will be held in the Union Living Room at 7:30 o'clock and it is intended to get some prominent Harvard Graduate to speak. There will be a movie and music by the Gold Coast Orchestra. Doughnuts, cider, and sandwiches will be served and favors will be furnished by Arthur...
...Bureau of the Socialist and Labor International in Zurich, Switzerland, enumerated last week the names of 15 Italian Deputies of the Opposition whom Premier Mussolini is alleged to have ordered and sent into exile on the barren islands off the coast of Sicily. The Bureau, which made these charges in a dispassionate report, alleges that over 1,000 antiFascists are in political exile on these Islands, imprisoned in company with common criminals, insufficiently nourished...
Baseball fans and sporting writers from coast to coast agreed that Mr. Ruth's attitude was graceful and justified. Tyrus R. Cobb, one-time Detroit manager and star, had just signed with the Philadelphia Athletics for a consideration reported as $60,000. Tristram Speaker, onetime Cleveland manager and star, had just signed with the Washington Senators for a consideration reported as $50,000. Since these two players, admittedly in the late twilight of their careers, had been adjudged of such value, Mr. Ruth was considered cheap at various salaries up to $1,000,000 per year. It was predicted...
...underpayment for learning, the overpayment for size, both of these are so well known that they have become the standard tocsins of educational reform from coast to coast. The Transcript is eminently right, and if, in its editorial, the second point is so little clarified as to appear inconsistent with the first, that condition may fairly be ascribed to the eager haste with which the writer has rushed to the support of measures which have been written and agitated for so extensively during the past decade rather than to any immaturity of understanding in educational problems...