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...against Representative Celler (if I can) I would became one. He is such a smart Alec! Wasn't it he who didn't hesitate to refer to the Prince of Wales as "chasing but not chaste" ? What a cowardly attack on a man who couldn't (or wouldn't) defend himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 29, 1926 | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

...Deputy Roberto Farinacci, Secretary General of the Fascist Party, was greeted by a band and the wildest enthusiasm when he arrived at Chieti to take charge of the defense. Robed in a handsome gown stitched together by patriotic female admirers, he received homage on all sides for daring to defend the alleged perpetrators of a crime so malodorous. Anti-Fascist lawyers had refused to undertake the defense, professing horror. Fascist lawyers had refused, lest Fascismo be tarred with additional infamy. Above such Roberto Farinacci soared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Matteotti Trial | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

...comparative history of commercial aviation in the U. S.? (See AERONAUTICS.) 4) What makes cows give more milk? What (same thing) makes hens lay more eggs? (See Music.) 5) Whose 83-year-old sister heard tributes by radio in her Brooklyn home? (See POLITICAL NOTES.) 6) Who dared to defend the five Fascists accused of the murder of Socialist Matteotti? (See ITALY.) 7) In what act of Ibsen's Ghosts does Libertine Alving appear? (See THE THEATRE.) 8) What two great cities were last week connected by commercial telephone for the first time? (See COMMONWEALTH.) 9) Was Molly Pitcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Mar. 29, 1926 | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

This evening at 8.15 o'clock in Payne Hall the University debaters will meet the Yale team. This debate, which is one of the Harvard-Yale-Prinecton triangular series, marks the climax of the current season. The University will defend the negative of the question: "Resolved, That education is the curse of the present age", against the forensic art of the Eli affirmative team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRANGLERS MEET YALE TONIGHT ON EDUCATION ISSUE | 3/27/1926 | See Source »

...Yale debate will be held as scheduled at 8.15 o'clock in Payne Hall. E. C. Sibley '28, D. S. Dickson '27 and I. J. Fain '27 have been picked to defend the negative against the Eli debaters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEAMS ARE PICKED FOR TRIANGULAR DEBATES | 3/24/1926 | See Source »

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