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...Milan last week a premiere for which Italy had waited almost a year came to pass. Nobles, diplomats, artists and high society packed into La Scala to hear singers retell the story of Lucretia's rape, the people's revolt and the eventual founding of the Roman Republic. Composer Ottorino Respighi had made his new opera dovetail scrupulously with Livy's 2,000-year-old account. As usual in his later work he had been sparing with orchestral effects, taken pains that voices should nearly everywhere prevail. Many pronounced Lucrezia the best opera Respighi ever wrote...
...else concerned, was deceived by the bride's appearance. She weighs 112 lb., looks mature in grown-up frocks. Last week a medical examination showed her to be pregnant, and according to the County Prosecutor, Groom Backus confessed to having seduced her. He was arrested for second-degree rape. Said Mrs. Backus, posing for photographs in apparent enjoyment of home life on her husband's $25-a-week salary: "People ought to mind their own business." Three days later Leona's father was jailed, accused of fraud in obtaining the birth certificate on which her marriage license...
...holding company then blossoming in utilities and later exemplified in railroading by the Van Sweringen companies, Mr. Hoxsey had described in his memorandum as "necessarily bad ... a mere exploitation of what may be termed the surplus earnings of the operating companies during periods of prosperity ... a temptation to rape the subsidiaries for the benefit of the holding company." Senator Wheeler read aloud Mr. Hoxsey's reasons for the indictment of such companies: "Financially and economically, because a small and normal variation in the rate of return on the property of the operating subsidiaries makes a large and abnormal variation...
Marching to the home of his estranged wife, Policeman Sullivan drew his service revolver, shot her father and mother dead. Reloading, he proceeded three blocks to the home of the girl he was accused of raping, killed her mother and brother. Then he rejoined Constable Gallagher, downed a drink with him, asked to be taken to the home of the social worker who had brought the rape charge against him. When she answered the door, he fired a fifth fatal shot, handed his gun to Gallagher. When Gallagher and Sullivan finally reached their destination, police jailed the accommodating constable...
...achieve a lasting peace, the curbing of munitions makers and limitation of capital investments in foreign enterprises must be accomplished. If Europe had seen fit to intervene by force in Italy's rape of Ethiopia, the United States might easily have been involved in the horrors of continual bloodshed, through the cries for protection from large financial companies, whose foreign investments were being threatened...