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Other bolters-of-the-week: Walter N. Rothschild, director of Abraham & Straus, huge Brooklyn department store; the Oregon Journal, traditionally Democratic Portland paper; Bess Streeter Aldrich, best-selling novelist and Hollywood scenarist; former Democratic Governor Charles H. Martin of Oregon, former Democratic Governor William A. Comstock of Michigan, Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland...
...oldest and smallest republic-called by Abraham Lincoln "one of the most honored States in history"-had to conclude its 25-year war with Germany. Having entered World War I along with Italy, its neighbor and protector, San Marino forgot to show up when peace treaties were signed at Sevres and Versailles. Everyone else forgot about San Marino. Even when the tiny Republic's new pro-Fascist twin regents outdid their master himself by both appearing on the same City Hall balcony to announce that everything was all changed now, San Marino hadn't quite caught up with...
Despite its affectation, you are apt to like Abraham's "Flow Gently, As In A Mourning Moonlight"--that is, like it up to the last few paragraphs, where it almost goes off the track. Abrahams has failed to clinch a story that has been well built up to an empty conclusion. Along with Bonner, Martin Collins Johnson was scarching for a new twist to the Boy-girl formula. "A Prevue With Angels" is good but too much absorbed with the twist, which in this case is the glorification of an intelligent mistress who knows and fears that marriage will mean...
...addition to tutoring, the Undergraduate Faculty supervises the award of about ten scholarships to high school graduates wishing to take the regular University Extension courses offered evenings by members of the faculties of Harvard and several other Greater Boston colleges and universities. These are known as the Abraham Michaelman Scholarships...
...home town of Emancipator Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Ill., was the scene of race riots, a lynching. Du Bois lost faith in Science and Progress, dropped tiis research at Atlanta University for a new policy: Propaganda. He founded a crusading monthly, The Crisis, became an xecutive of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, struggled no less against the submissive Negro philosophy of Booker T. Washington than against white prejudices...