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...Radioed Request. Signor Mussolini, who was carrying bricks as a stonemason's helper when young Austen Chamberlain was Civil Lord of the Admiralty (1895-1900), cabled the British Foreign Office last week his desire for a personal conference with Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. Underlings at the Foreign Office palpitated, scurried. The request of Il Duce del Fascismo was coded, then put on the air by a potent wireless transmitter. The radio operator of Sir Warden Chilcott's yacht Dolphin caught the message, carried it to Sir Austen Chamberlain. He, vacationing in Corsican waters, was soon steaming aboard...
...Chao-hsin, Chinese Minister to Italy, backed up last week his protest before the League of Nations (TIME, June 14) against alleged British high-handedness in China by cabling all prominent Chinese Chambers of Commerce a request that they support him in demanding treaty concessions from Britain in reparation for the recent British bombardment of Wanshien (TIME, Sept...
Died. Mrs. M. D. Hornsby, mother of Rogers Hornsby, manager and second baseman of the St. Louis Cardinals; in Austin, Tex., after having been an invalid for eleven years. Manager Hornsby, obeying his mother's dying request, proceeded to play in the world...
...Regulation of Athletic Sports, I inquired of the Chairman of the Princeton Board of Control as to Princeton's probable attitude towards a suspension of the football games for the next two years to enable us to play a home-and-home game with the University of Michigan. This request was made because our faculty regulation, made last year, prevents more than one football game to be played away from Cambridge each year...
United States Senator W. M. Butler of Massachusetts received word from Washington yesterday that his request for the establishment of a branch of the Boston postoffice to be located in the midst of the new Business School dormitories has been approved...