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...Portes of South Carolina to Bolivia. John Van Antwerp MacMurray of Maryland to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.** Minister MacMurray's appointment was of major significance as it foreshadowed his selection as first U. S. Ambassador to Soviet Russia when diplomatic relations are resumed. As a young careerist he served three years (1908-11) in the U. S. embassy at St. Petersburg. In 1925 President Coolidge sent him to China as Minister. In 1930 he resigned from the foreign service to head the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University, whose onetime president, Dr. Frank Johnson...
MAMMONART?Upton Sinclair?Published by himself ($2.00). Homer was a hanger-on, Pindar a pressagent, Æschylus a 100% Athenian, Raphael a pampered pet of popes. Dryden was a "bedroom" playwright, Coleridge a reactionary sensualist, Balzac a predatory careerist...