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...David Lloyd George, on how he did it: "In this country we insisted, in the teeth of a furious outcry from staff officers and their friends, on retaining in the industrial side of warfare the men needful for equipping our forces with those mechanical aids and armaments which would avail to save their lives and ease their task." But in the last war there were a lot of Frenchmen to keep the Germans from crossing the Channel...
...minister of today . . . who does not avail himself of contemporary psychology's invaluable contribution is neglecting an indispensable resource for effectiveness in his work. To know how character is formed, deformed and reformed is basic. . . . Because of ignorance of this available information, many ministers in dealing with personal problems are doing far more harm than good.-Harry Emerson Fosdick...
Shocked by such pro-British utterances was Deputy Dillon's Party leader, onetime President William Thomas Cosgrave, who repudiated the speech. Even more shocked was Prime Minister Eamon de Valera. He tried to have the speech censored-to no avail. Eire's censor takes orders from nobody, sometimes censors even Taoiseach de Valera...
This neat bit of doggerel by Jack Tarver (Macon Telegraph) passed from mouth to mouth in Georgia last week. But to no avail: Governor Gene Talmadge, who has taken his bounden oath to drive all foreigners* out of the Cracker State, won his first victory and expelled a "foreigner," Iowa-born Walter Cocking, dean of the College of Education at the University of Georgia. Talmadge charge: that Cocking dared to hope that white and Negro teachers might study together at a graduate school (still in the idea stage) proposed near Athens (Ga.). Ten of the State's 15 regents...
...finest tributes to Handy was a letter in 1915 from an African trader in Sierra Leone: "Seeing that you are bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh, I desire to enter into some relations whereby we [in Africa] may avail ourselves of your music." Handy's book, like his music, is most significant as the life story of a talented Negro in the U.S. Handy makes neither much nor little of the racial question, but he does refer to it, on occasion. And now & again he speaks directly, for Jews as well as Negroes, with a lack...