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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hero Young's wireless from the Aquitania prevented this question from being answered. "Please," he begged, "let me come home quietly. . . . We [Thomas Nelson Perkins and Thomas W. Lament, his Reparations colleagues] cannot find in our hearts justification for the acceptance of such an honor for a service rendered as private citizens which any number of other Americans could or would have done as well. . . ." When fog trapped the Aquitania 200 miles out of New York, slowing her progress, Hero Young became impatient. The next day his eldest son, Charles Jacob Young, was being married in Cleveland to Miss...
Besides her complaint on Minorities, Germany was urgently pressing the question: "When will the Allied Powers get out of the Rhineland?" Brought up in Council session, Minister Briand met it by playing for time. France cannot answer, he said, until she knows 'the views of Ramsay MacDonald, newly-elected British Prime Minister. He suggested that it be settled along with other details of the Young Reparations Plan at an International Conference proposed for July or August...
...photograph my heart, for then you would have a statement which for the time being I cannot divulge." But to Mexican newssheets which printed apocryphal articles of agreement, he said brusquely...
African savages do not lynch people. Southern white "crackers" do. Psychiatrist A. A. Brill has said: "Anyone taking part in or witnessing a lynching cannot remain a civilized person." Lynching is a handy substitute for the merry-go-round, the theatre, the symphony orchestra and other diversions which "crackers" lack. Author White has enough sense not to present lynch-law as an indictment of civilization below the Mason-Dixon line. Instead he conducts an inquiry which blames, not the whole white Southern civilization itself, but elements thereof...
...Schmuck of the New York State Supreme Court, ruling on this motion, said: "Although for the most part the book is the gibberish ego of a selfish sentimentalist, and . . . the feverish exhalations of a perverted and disappointed conceit against an individual in particular and society and law generally, and cannot seriously affect the opinion of rational individuals, yet since the words are patently libellous per se, and obviously refer to the plaintiff, despite the adroit generalizations used, and because a publication is made at the publisher's peril and risk, the motion is denied...