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...Un. The Government to demand authority from Parliament to act by decree and to conduct in secret its operations to resuscitate the franc. (It touched a new low-for-all-time last week-39.01 to the dollar...
From their comment it was plain that Italy's continued excess of imports over exports has at length roused II Duce to legislate frugality upon his people. He is himself, un uomo magro (a lean man), a man who is "fit." Less wine and more coarse flour will toughen jovial Italian paunches into the likeness of his own muscular diaphragm. Less gasoline will be imported, less white flour, less newspaper pulp, less superfluous building material...
...Mary Heaton Vorse. An editor of the New Student compiled reports of undergraduate demonstrations of all kinds and dimensions to show how many "learners" were "in active revolt." More coherent was a dialog in limbo between Lenin and Anatole France, by Poet Babette Deutsch. More profound, and quite un-Communistic save in its departure from conventional form, was an "Apology for Bad Dreams" by the country's new national poet, Robinson Jeffers of the Pacific headlands...
...become traditional or customary, and such deployment is contrary to the best interests of the college, such interests as the Student Council's Committee on Education has attempted to portray. The Business School is being moved over the river that it may best enjoy full and wholesome development un-compromised by any of those inhibitions which confinement within the limits of the college continually demands. So it must ultimately become definitely divorced from the college. Therefore those who do go over the river from the college next fall must institute no custom. A Cis-Charles college colony must remain...
...hotsy-totsy style there is the fantasy. "Rags Martin-Jones." full of the unbelievable tosh of which Fitzgerald was master. But there is something new, something un-Fitzgeraldian, which has an aroma of Sherwood Anderson. All the other stories in the book have it, now faint and thin, now strong and assailing. Perhap it is unfair to shout "Sherwood Anderson!" It may be that this is what happens to all young men who grow serious before they have grown truly wise. And so it may be that this is merely a phase in the growing-up process of which...