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Long afflicted with arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), myocarditis (inflammation of the muscular tissue of the heart) and cystitis (bladder inflammation), Mr. Taft, 72, suffered a collapse when, last December, he returned from his brother's funeral in Cincinnati. After hospitalization he went to Asheville, N. C., for rest. There...
Fascist orders concerning the funeral of Quadrumvir Bianchi were that there was to be no music in the procession but the rolling of oilcloth-muffled drums, no flowers on the coffin or at the grave except two wreaths, one from the King, one from Il Duce. Wreath money, it was...
At the actual funeral last week the King's wreath, if it lay upon the coffin, was completely obscured by a floral tribute 18¾ feet in circumference, inscribed only with the two words in giant capitals BENITO MUSSOLINI. To make up for the King's oblivion there...
Resigned. William Howard Taft, Chief Justice of the U. S., Cincinnati-born (1857), Yale-educated (1878), lawyer, Ohio Superior Court Judge (1887-90), Solicitor General of the U. S. (1890-92), U. S. Circuit Judge (1892-1900), first Civil Governor of the Philippines (1901-04). Roosevelt's Secretary of War...
"On Sunday mornings the house cat taught him [Kitten Mike] to stalk pigeons in the colonnade. Mike was set to 'point' like a dog, and the house cat little by little drove the pigeons up into a corner. The pigeons became dazed, and fell down, and then each...