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...face on the scuttled League of Nations. He felt himself on surer ground when, praising Wilson's advocacy of peace, he declared: "The imagination of the masses of world population was stirred, as never before, by President Wilson's gallant appeal to them - to those masses - to banish future war. . . . Through all the centuries and down to the world conflict of 1914 to 1918, wars were made by governments. Woodrow Wilson challenged that necessity. That challenge made the people who create and who change governments think...
Many were the Pre-Raphaelitish extracurricular activities. They published a short-lived magazine, Germ. They were charter readers and enthusiasts over Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Edward Fitz-Gerald's translation of the Rubaiyat. They started an interior decorating company, "destined to banish Plush and Fuss from the Victorian drawing-room. . . ." But their most enthusiastically-pursued activity was the cult of Pre-Raphaelite woman. First came Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, called "Lizzie" for short, a long-necked, beauteous but goitrous milliner's assistant. For a while their common model, she became by tacit consent the property...
...friend of William Hartman Woodin, and Elbert G. Bennett, banker of Ogden, Utah. These announcements the polite bankers applauded. And they listened politely when Comptroller O'Connor told them: ''Every depositor has a right to his money. This law makes the theory a fact. It will banish fear in every banker's mind of runs upon his bank. ... Is there any depositor who would not accept one-half of 1% less interest and know his deposit was insured? ... It is my firm opinion that the insurance feature of the law will save millions to our people...
...other spineless creatures who make compromises, start conflicts. Let the Church keep the bars up and avoid trouble. Intercommunion would ''make the Episcopal household of faith a cafeteria." Said he: "If such practices are persisted in, I should feel it my duty as a bishop to banish and drive away from the church such practices as erroneous and contrary to God's word and destructive to the faith as this church has received the same." Newshawks hastily headlined that a split was looming in the Episcopal Church. But churchmen thought not-not in the urbane organization which...
...proposing to banish the practice of athletic scholarships by removing the guilty colleges from its list of approved institutions of learning in this section, the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education has done little more than register its appreciation of a fact: it has certainly not discovered the remedy for the situation...