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...Duce received the news in Sicily, where he had gone to review Italy's annual war games. On a triumphal tour of the island, he told cheering Sicilians that "the lush old days of the Roman Emperor Augustus" were the only fitting comparison with the Fascist regime. To the crowd jam-packing the public square of Syracuse he shouted that Italy was "ready for any struggle, prepared for any sacrifice & determined to snatch victory" at any cost. Then, remembering the recent improvement in Anglo-Italian relations, he stood on the prow of a dummy destroyer erected in Messina...
...State for India (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935 et ante), that no matter how hard Indians at first kicked against its traces they would end by settling down, pulling in harness. Last week the Congress Party executive committee, chairmanned by Party President Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, a rabid firebrand by comparison with mild St. Gandhi, grudgingly voted to end the boycott begun last spring...
...gummed up with unnecessary legal verbiage, Mr. Neff cited a utility company's prospectus for an issue of first-mortgage bonds. Of most of its 2.100 words he observed that "the instructions [SEC's] not only permit but invite the omission of such detail." offered in comparison a model prospectus of his own covering the same ground in 250 words. C. "Silly," said Western Union Telegraph Co.'s dour old Vice President John Calvin Willever last week of newspaper reports that Western Union and Postal Telegraph were about to be prosecuted for violation of the anti-trust...
Captain Tom Bilodeau, a major disappointment at bat this season in comparison to last year's average which led the League, has apparently struck his stride and is batting .400 in the past three games, including a home-run smash in the first Dartmouth game with two on base to tie the score...
Since most of the writing is in illegible scawls, the manuscripts are accompanied by the first published editions, so visitors may trace the development of the works by comparison with the printed texts...