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...above), a battered but not yet exhausted older issue last week raised its head and made an extra session of Congress appear almost inevitable. This issue was Human Misery, rallying cry of the man who during the past few weeks has developed into the Senate's leading altruist-Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas. Shocked by Red Cross Chairman John Barton Payne's refusal to accept the $25,000,000 which he had attached as a rider to the Interior Department's supply bill (see p. 22), Minority Leader Robinson proposed that the Senate find another medium...
...season progresses encomia will accrue to the Club's directors, but especially to Clifford Webster Barnes, founder of the club, onetime (1900-1905) Illinois College president, onetime (1918) Red Cross worker, capitalist, altruist, di vine. At Yale, Student Barnes, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., made his first efforts to bring sectarians together. Later, in Paris, Student Barnes assembled a small interdenominational group. Luncheon friends among Chicago business men he persuaded to become trustees of the original Chicago Sunday Evening Club and the beginning and continued existence of the club have been due to his efforts. Looked upon...
During his more than ten years' tenure of office Treasurer Carnes prospered, became Realtor Carnes, Millionaire Carnes, Altruist Carnes. The treasurer dabbled in real estate, owned in Atlanta at the end of a decade personal and real estate to the sum of $3,357,193.71. When a church needed $13,000, the altruist gave it; when a ministerial student needed funds to complete his education, the altruist supplied them. An impressive home, four automobiles, educated sons added to the prestige of Treasurer Carnes...
...heartwhole desire than the establishment of truth (vide Plato's Republic) as against opinion (vide Plato's Republic). Of course one might suspect that the Executive Editor had some less noble desire, some arriere pensee, such as answering that cry for bread and circuses. At all events, be he altruist or editor, the letter with its enclosed list of impertinent questions has been written. And concerning both letter and questions it must be suggested that the CRIMSON views both with disfavor...