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Mussolini. Next day, said Benito: "We are going forward to normal conditions; but it is not absolutely perfect nor yet are we moving very fast. Perfection never existed in Italy; and there is almost no belligerent country where any appreciable degree of perfection or normalization has yet been attained...
...there any normal father in all the land who was going to bribe a public official and imperil his reputation and character, who would select his only son to carry the bribe? The selection of that only son was the very indicia that the man who sent the money had nothing in his mind which was evil or corrupt. . . . Does a bribed official give or send to a briber a promissory note for the bribe...
...this makes a total prospective supply of 2,586,559,000 bu. of all kinds of corn, good and bad. The preceding year the crop amounted to 3,046,387,000 bit., of which 3,022,031,000 was actually used up. Facing a normal consumption of over 3 billion bu., therefore, we have a supply of about 2 billion bu. of all kinds of corn, and of about 1¾ billion bu. of merchantable corn. The price of corn has risen sensationally, but from the existing statistical situation some experts look for higher rather than lower corn prices...
...rails, up went sterling. On Saturday, a record was reached. The trading done on that day was only once exceeded in the history of the Exchange -on a Saturday, and that once in panic-time-the silver panic of 1906. It was not until 20 minutes after twelve noon, normal closing time, that the demented ticker, chattering, jabbering, scribbled the word "Close," marking the end of the day's operations, of a week of nationwide buying...
...Manhattan, the New York State Teachers' Association approved of usages recommended by the Simplified Spelling Board for gradual adoption in schoolbooks used by the State, reported that the simplified spelling movement had the support of 22 other State Teachers' Associations and of 173 universities, colleges, normal schools, including 19 state universities. Simplified spellers drop the superfluous "ough" from "through," "though," "bought"; the superfluous "ue" from "catalogue," "decalogue," "pedagogue," "monologue...