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Three of the guests came to make speeches. M. Daeschner went to a Wall Street luncheon, spoke, was told by General John J. Pershing that France would not default. He later addressed an Alliance Francaise luncheon at his hotel. Said he: "In a few years, America will know whether she was right or wrong to loan money to France...
...Mayor of Tolmezzo, a village in the north, decided to place a commemoration tablet on the wall of a school at which Signor Mussolini taught some eighteen years ago. The Mayor was somewhat damped, surprised and pained to receive a telegram from the Premier...
...fresco depicts scenes from U. S. history beginning with the landing of the bold Italian adventurer, Cristoforo Colombo. Work upon this design was started long ago by Constantino Brumidi, Italian artist, carried on by Filippi Costaggini, another Italian, but suspended in 1899 and never resumed. A gap of blank wall breaks the complete circuit of the frieze...
...through it of late have gone a motley crew-peasants from the Caucasus, coatless students from Kiev, land-robbed landowners from the Volga Valley. They have turned sharply round the gate, up a stone staircase by the wall, into a low-vaulted room half-lost in the acres of masonry. There they have kissed the hands of a scarred and battered old priest, Basil Ivanovitch Baliavin, known to the world as the Most Reverend Dr. Tikhon, Metropolitan of Moscow, Patriarch of All Russia...
...whole duty of newspapers. The chaste New York Times says merely : "All the news that's fit to print." The Springfield Republican lets it go at: "All the news, and the truth about it." The Louisville Courier-Journal clinches matters with ''Largest Morning Circulation of any Kentucky Newspaper." The Wall Street Iconoclast, recklessly: "The truth, no matter whom it helps or hurts...