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...Charles Edward Stowe, of Santa Barbara, who calls himself twin brother of Uncle Tom's Cabin because his mother, Harriet Beecher Stowe, produced him and the book at approximately the same time, sent to Coolidge Campaign Headquarters a quotation from Quintus Horatius Flaccus, famed Roman poet, which he applied to the President...
...clearly showed who Fascismo's real friends and foes are. The party does not want lukewarm adherents who will cast it off. The new Directorate which the Council meets to elect must be strong and disciplined." Italy's wheat crop has failed. This was evidenced when Roman bakeries started to bake the inferior war bread - now called pane popolare and sold for 1 lira 20 centesimi per kilogram (6 cents). The price of white bread advanced to 2 lire per kilogram (10 cents), owing to the advancing price of wheat. A party of, men, said to be Fascisti...
...fame and munificence as one of those who instituted the classical revival of Italian Art. He made statues of Palamedes, of Napoleon, of Hebe, of Hercules and also of George Washington. In his great style he modeled the founder of our country, in the flowing toga of a Roman Senator. Secure permission to have made, from this statue, a replica in the best Carrara marble. The State of North Carolina will pay the expense, and we, the Legislature of this Commonwealth, will place the replica on the steps of the State Capitol, where it will stand arousing the beating hearts...
Throughout the world, the Roman Catholic Church is conducting an anti-immodesty drive (TIME, July 28, Aug. 4, RELIGION). First casualty: a Spanish priest...
...Criminal justice in America is now a Roman holiday. The courts are in the Colosseum. The state's attorney's office often is an open torture room of human souls. Exposure of the processes of justice, originally a public safeguard, has been perverted into a public danger. They have been exploited as a field of popular amusement. They are a rich for- age for sensation mongers and the yellow press. Their publicity uncontrolled is debasing American thought. It is contributing to the delinquency of criminal justice...