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...speech at Naples, His Majesty Benito Mussolini said: "I am a servant of no master but the Nation. I ask no reward but my conscience. It is enough that I can look forward to a none too distant date when I can lay aside my task, strong in the knowledge that I have accomplished something useful...
That sleepless servant of the University, Mr. Frederick Meade, whose name is attached to all the miscellanea one receives at the beginning of the year relative to term bills and dining halls, has made a step of revolutionary significance in his campaign for More Mouths at Mem. By throwing open the gates of Harvard's gastronomic Elysium to the hoi polloi in petticoats--with the proviso, of course, that they find themselves suitable escorts--Mr. Meade has killed several birds with one stone; in fact, his name should be struck at once from the visiting list of the Audubon Society...
...union suits, while not exactly a drawing-room asset, may, never theless, be useful to a servant of the U. S. In Paris, a doctor examined a group of Poles who had asked for visas to come to the U. S. as immigrants. The physical examination showed them to be O. K.; but the doctor extended his examination to their undergarments and observed that they were all new and of the same make...
Sidney Webb, a picturesque little man with a big beard, once a civil servant, was, with Bernard Shaw and Graham Wallace, one of the leading lights in the Fabian Society−organization of Socialism which has done much to develop the Socialist idea in Britain along eminently sound economic lines, and is responsible in no little part for the moderation displayed by British Socialists today. The members of this Society founded the celebrated London School of Economics, which is now one of the most important centres of economic teaching in the world...
...recent visit to Rome, described the Pope as showing plainly the effects of his arduous office: "As a matter of fact when he subscribes his official letters 'Servus Servorum Dei,' he is not merely using a figure of speech but is truly describing himself as the servant of The Servants of God." The Cardinal congratulated Abbot Obrecht on wiping off a debt of $30,000 and "laying aside a little for a rainy day." He lauded the monastic life...