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...Prime Minister" had turned from friend to foe. For the most part Italian-speaking, individualistic, the Maltese have always leaned less toward the Britain that owns them than toward the Italy that is near them.* The Fascisti retaliate with friendship, bitterly realizing that possession of Malta gives Britain virtual command of the Mediterranean. Lately, Fascist and Maltese editors have been hoarsely agitating for the return of Malta to Italy. Last week, over the signature of Friend Lord Strickland an order was issued which 1) Forbade circulation of any newspapers or pamphlets containing anti-British or anti-Strickland propaganda. 2) Imposed...
...chairmanship not because he looms as a potent public utility tycoon but because he is an able mining engineer. In 1894 with Edwin Nash Sanderson, he formed the highly successful consulting engineering firm of Sanderson & Porter, today consulting engineers for American Water Works & Electric Co. Probably unconscious of the virtual homonym, Water Works Engineer Porter chose as head of the foundation's research committee George Booker Waterhouse, M. I. T. professor of metallurgy...
...contest one of the smaller elements of the football day, or rather holiday. The question as to whether the football player or the serious onlooker will be disappointed will fortunately not be raised at Harvard for some time to come; for what arc lights there are have been virtually relegated to the limbo of superannuation from which they are not likely to emerge for a few years. And so the man who likes his football with a proper amount of preface and aftermath is still in style. Whether the overemphasis on the preface and the virtual elimination of the aftermath...
Observers knew to a virtual certainty that the Trondhjemmers' protest will be in vain. The reactionary country folk of Norway whose representatives dominate the Storthing are bent on restoring the almost prehistoric names by which Norwegian cities were called before the fatherland came under the rule of Danish and later Swedish kings, from which it emerged independent only in 1905. Stubborn zealots, the Norwegian rival Deputies changed the Danish name of Norway's capital, "Christiania," to "Oslo." Having changed Trondhjem to Nidaros, they now contemplate changing the names of two of Norway's major ports, Bergen and Christiansund. to "Bj?...
...York subsidiary was seized by a group with Communistic leanings. They declined to accept arbitration and forced a strike which lasted for nearly six months, cost the union treasury some $3,500,000 in cash reserve, the workers some $30,000,000 in wages. The strike was a virtual failure. So the old officials stepped back in and reorganized...