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...that they were healing the difficulties. Mr. Davis was crowded out of the picture. But, at the end when both the strikers and employers were approaching exhaustion, Mr. Davis suggested peace and got it. In the recent ten and a half months' Passaic textile strike, his attempts at settlement were few and futile. But there is not a single major strike now going on in the U. S.-the coal, railroad, Manhattan garment and Passaic strikes have all been settled in various ways. Who can say whether a Secretary of Labor with his fingers in every strike would...
Though Finance Minister Count Volpi was received with extraordinary acclaim at Rome after negotiating the Italo-U. S. debt settlement (TIME, Nov. 23, 1925) persistent rumors have since envisioned him at odds with Premier Mussolini...
...Turin with 300,000,000 lire ($13,470,000) to carry on with. . . . Volpi was furious and sent in his resignation. Mussolini curtly told him he would be dismissed when the moment came. 'Then I'm a prisoner,' said Volpi, hero of the Italo-American debt settlement and multimillionaire. Said Mussolini: 'If you put it that...
...should be unable to reach the ears of the powers that be is due largely to those two superstitions of our political leaders, silence and economy. Senators and other party leaders will perhaps read the report of the Columbia specialists, but what effect will their words have on the settlement of the debts? Almost certainly they will have none. The debts have come to have a bitter, almost raucous note in conversation. Forty-two Columbia professors, even with academic reticence, constitute an almost noisy chorus. And although Mr. Coolidge may be accused of paying only lip-service to economy...
...90th birthday, in earnest quavering speech: "Mussolini is the man chosen by God to direct Italy to her glorious goal. I pray for him daily. . . . Negotiations for the reconciliation of the Church and State are making gratifying headway, and we are confident that a settlement may be reached on a basis of justice to the Holy See." Such well-meant words are little more than wasted breath so long as the potent Pietro Cardinal Gasparri continues Pontifical Secretary of State, and voices now and then his unalterable opposition to a compromise with the Civil Power (TIME, Feb. 8). Cardinal Gasparri...