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Since the Year One (of Fascism-1922) Benito Mussolini had given his people a martial slogan: "Believe! Obey! Fight!" He hurried from naval reviews to maneuvers at sea, from military exercises to parades to grandiose mock campaigns on land. He learned to salute like Caesar, scowl like Napoleon, wear uniforms like the Kaiser. Of all his Cabinet portfolios, his favorites were those of War, Navy, Air Force. He raised a whole generation of young Italians-among them his own sons -to live dangerously, to consider pacifism a bourgeois vice, to take sensuous, esthetic pleasure from the pattern of exploding bombs...
Died. Ward Crenelle Foster, 79, founder of the "Ask Mr. Foster" Travel Service; after a three-month illness; in Coral Gables, Fla. Despite his slogan, his 75 offices in the U. S. and Canada were run by women-"We tried men at first, but they were...
...Read a Book" Adler publishes the list of classics of ancient and modern thought which are known by the slogan "the hundred great books." A whole section of the book is devoted to the rules of proper reading...
...Boss: "I'm not asking him, I'm telling him." Thus, on a Good Government platform, Felix Belair Jr. was this week elected W. H. C. A. president-as correspondents all over the city deserted press rooms, cabbed to the White House, voted 100% Belair on the slogan: "There is no machine opposition." "Hitler only gets 99%," boasted Hatchet-man Durno...
...Goring insisted that next year's root crop yield must be 10% to 15% over last year's, which was the highest ever. "Do not betray the faith we have in you, German farmer, to provide food for us," appealed the Field Marshal. "I give you a slogan for the production battle of 1940: Now more than ever! Ours is victory! Hail our Führer...