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...flock of 372 Fascist Deputies, Shepherd Benito said: "Italy is just beginning her very last Parliamentary experiment. If it succeeds, all right; if it fails, Parliament will be suppressed and its place taken by other vehicles of Government. . . . We must, therefore, do everything in our power to govern along new lines and to strive to make the Italian Chamber a model of Parliamentary institutions. Revolutions often obtain results different from those they at first intended. It is, therefore, possible that Fascismo, which began in opposition to Parliament, may lead to a new period of splendor of Parliament...
...Frank A. Vanderlip decided to give a Japanese garden party at Beechwood, Scarborough-on-the- Hudson, for the benefit of Tsuda College, destroyed by the Japanese earthquake. They wanted to invite Secretary Hughes and Ambassador Hani-hara. So they martialed a flock of carrier pigeons and the 102nd Aviation Squadron of the National Guard at Staten Island, to deliver a message to each of these distinguished diplomats. Lieutenant J. Kendrick, of the Aviation Squadron, was equipped with a Curtiss plane-familiarly known as a "Jenny," powered with a 100-horsepower engine and capable of 70 to 75 miles an hour...
Only in these two rounds did Harvard look woefully bad at the bat. In the other innings Captain Jenkins and his men made Carroll pitch to the limit and constantly threatened to break open the game with a flock of hits. The very first inning presaged what was to happen all the afternoon. Campbell and Gordon singled sharply to the Purple outfield with one out only to be left on base when Todd struck out and Hammond rolled feebly to Gautreau...
...Edwin Winterborne, pastor of the Faith Tabernacle at Lebanon, Pa. (TIME, May 19), was forcibly inoculated for diphtheria. Edwin had forbidden his flock to call physicians during an epidemic of the disease; this had resulted in quarantine of the church and of the homes of nine of the flock, by the local authorities. The sick families were then compelled to submit to medical treatment. One Mrs. Charles Roth, who had lost her husband and four children during the epidemic, would not give verbal consent to the inoculation, although she submitted peaceably...
...question as to his possible ulterior motives very naturally arises. But to cause a monarchist upheaval in Germany the Prince must gain the support of a vast majority of the people. With their confidence in royalty shaken by defeat in war it is hardly likely that they will flock to the standard of the double eagle, either deceived or flattered by the Crown Prince's sudden interest in the humble science of the ploughman...