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...Capitalism has a function which Fascismo recognizes and approves. But Fascismo also recognizes that the fate of capitalism as well as the fate of the workers depends on the fate of the nation." Five to One. At the close of this oration the docile senators passed (139 to 27) a bill making strikes and lockouts unlawful in Italy and setting up special "Labor Magistrates" to settle all differences between employers and employes...
Would that I were a millionaire and could put the Lampoon back on its feet. The fact is I am not, nor 'is any other former editor of the Lampoon. Alas for the irony of fate...
Good books go through their grand editions only to end their existence on poor stalls in poorer covers. Good plays suffer a somewhat similar fate. They too have the grand vellum of Broadway about them for a time until, eclipsed by newer rivals, they are forced to the cheap paper covers of the world of stock. Such a play is "Outward Bound". Other attempts at histrionic ethics and metaphysics have sent Sutton Vane's play into the limbo of provincial stock productions. So his philosophy of rat trap existence, a philosophy which saw nothing in heaven or hell...
...House, the Republican leader, Mr. Tilson, announced that he would leave the fate of the measure to the Steering Committee. Although there is apparently much opposition, Representative White of Kansas reported to the House a similar resolution on the day that the Senate passed that offered by Senator Norris. The White resolution differs from that of the Senate principally in fixing Jan. 4 for the assembling of Congress, and Jan. 24 for the inauguration of the President...
...selfish, she marries with half a heart. Then the grave?which was a living one, a prison camp?gives up its dead. She finds it in her to leave husband and child, to conclude, on a veranda in Fiesole, that she was wise to relight her candle after fate had snuffed it. The story is straightforwardly written out, with honest British cliches of word, action and philosophy. It is another young woman's (Miss Thompson is 24) post-bellum retort. It will please many, but to this reviewer the younger characters seem wooden things from the hand of a very...