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...Condemned racial discrimination and called for laws to end it. 1$ Decided to hold a full-dress conference on hemisphere economic problems in Rio (rather than Washington) next fall. Debated questions of human rights, the right of asylum, and revision of the Bogota pact for obligatory settlement of inter-American disputes, and agreed to act on all items in time to adjourn next week...
...women ("conducive to good order"), uniform entrance requirements for U.S. colleges, and teacher training. He looked forward to the day when Columbia would be a great university, complete with such modern additions as schools of engineering, architecture and commerce. Nevertheless, Columbia stayed put in its former deaf & dumb asylum on East 49th Street. It remained for the Midas touch of millionaire President Seth Low and his autocratic successor Nicholas Murray Butler to put Barnard's ideas into practice on Morningside Heights...
...after he had been painting for some 30 years, demented Pierre Dumont tried to kill his own mother and was committed to an insane asylum in Paris. There, in 1936, he died in poverty, so overshadowed as an artist by his fellow impressionists Monet, Renoir, and Pissarro that the world had already forgotten about him. Last week London's Redfern Gallery threw open its doors to the first showing of Dumont's works outside France, and the long-neglected painter seemed suddenly destined for an amazing revival...
...U.S.S. Washington, met Sam unofficially and offered him tacit support, urgently warning Sam not to "loot or burn down the cities." But once in office, Sam balked at signing a treaty for U.S. occupation of Haiti. Instead, he jailed and massacred 167 suspected revolutionaries-then panicked and fled for asylum to the French legation. A raging mob broke into the building, found Sam hiding under a bed, dragged him out, literally tore him limb from limb, and paraded through Port-au-Prince with his head on a pole. Haiti's history had hit bottom. Admiral Caperton, waiting...
...saucepans that hung above the sleeping poet's pillow. In so far as he ever does, Gogarty blames himself for not having noted at the time "the latent lunacy" of his pistol-shy pal; but he explains that "it is one thing to study lunacy in an asylum, another . . . to recognize it in a friend...