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Ethiopia's Emperor, advised by his Maine Yankee alter ego, Mr. Everett Colson, set the counter trap of demanding in a cablegram to Geneva that The Deal be scrutinized by the entire League Assembly in which minor nations have the majority, though they have never dared to make effective use of it. If once he could get 40 or even 30 little nations squawking. Emperor Haile Selassie knew they could be counted on to make the world's welkin ring in his favor...
...Adventists who are firmly resolved that Ethiopia shall not yield. With their little organ pealing Rock of Ages, followed by What A Friend We Have In Jesus, the Emperor displayed unwavering courage, flayed The Deal to correspondents, and assented when his Acting Secretary of State, Mr. Everett Andrew Colson, a native of Warren, Me., advised from Addis Ababa that Ethiopia should not take upon herself the onus of rejecting the Franco-British proposal but should pass the buck to the League of Nations...
...wild Addis Ababa last week Mr. Rickett was not wasting his time. Nor was lean, hollow-cheeked Yankee Everett Andrew Colson, who sat across from Fat Chaps. In 1930 the Ethiopian Government, profoundly suspicious of Britain, France, Italy and all the great colonial powers, asked the non-predatory U. S. to pick a fiscal adviser whom Ethiopia could really trust. Obligingly the State Department supplied a list of young U. S. economists willing to work in Addis Ababa for a pittance more than they could make at home. From the list Mr. Colson was picked by the Emperor, hired...
...Thompson, professor of Law, Cornell University; Horace E. Read, professor of Law, Dalhousie University; W. R. Blackard, assistant Professor of Law, University of Tennessee; C. L. Colson, assistant professor of Law, Emery University; A. B. Eblen, assistant professor of Law, University of Missouri; J. J. Morrison, professor of Law, Tulane University; E. G. Jennings, Secretary to W. S. Kenyon, U. S. Circuit Judge, Fort Dodge, Iowa; T. A. Cowan, former instructor in Law, University of Pennsylvania...
They objected to a teacher who would use the word that Principal Tate had used in front of their children. When Mr. Colson asked one of the parents what "evolution" meant, the parent said: "I do not know and I do not want to know but I do know that I do not want my children to know anything about it, either." The result of this to-do was a request that Mr. Tate, anti-evolutionist and Deacon of the Baptist Church, was asked to resign as Principal of the Farragut Grammar School...