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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assured. There are in these four principles no loopholes for the individualist; the development of self for which we raise our modern hue and cry gets short shift beside the more universal principles of Keyserling's philosophy. As he agrees at the outset "the fundamental problems of life cannot be settled according to a schedule, because they are both in reality and intrinsically individual problemss; on every occasion when they arise the individual character of each affords the only starting-point for its solution, and consequently in every single case the solution must be unique also." But, "to infer from...
...sided with the President against cruisers. A majority of both parties were impressed by figures: Great Britain has 54 cruisers, Japan 25, U. S. 15.* The cruiser item will again be fought in the House, but passage is likely. In any case, however, Congress can only appropriate money; it cannot force the President to spend it. (Bill went to conference...
That is not true. Marshal Foch of all men best knows it is not true. But the Allies have come to realize that Germany, a great republic, cannot be forever fettered down to the letter of the Treaty of Versailles. Germany has disarmed to an extent sufficient to render France safe from aggression. Then why not accept the practical minimum of German armament now achieved, and forget that the Versailles Treaty calls for virtually total disarmament...
...virtually the head of it, although he is not even in the Government, but is the Secretary of the Communist Party. Trotzky, whatever you hear, will always be a factor. Since he is Commissioner of Concessions, we did most of our business with him. Even a prejudiced person cannot talk to him without realizing the enormous vigor and capacity of the man. He is a 'humdinger.' "I had made something of a study of Russia last spring on a trip with my father-in-law, Samuel M. Vauclain, of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and so Mr. Harriman suggested...
...CANNOT DIE- Thames Williamson-Small Maynard ($2.50). Strange and wonderful people appear in this strange and wonderful book. Richard Bacon, debonair and demoniac son of Alchemist Roger Bacon, visits Philadelphia about 1830. He is 567 years old. There he injects Arthur Pentland, young Pittsburgh snob, with the elixir of life.* Soon after, he breaks his neck, being no longer useful to Author Williamson Arthur Pentland, who as a child suffered from night fears and grew up to love only his mother (now dead), soon marries a girl that reminds him of his mother. Being ageless, however, he outlives...