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...London and married a childhood playmate named Edith Kermit Carow. He settled down in Washington for six years (1889-95) as Civil Service Commissioner (under Presidents Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland), then put in two years as police board chairman of New York City (1895-97), booting out corrupt cops, promoting the worthy and rewarding the brave, making headlines by prowling the slums with his reform-minded friend Jacob (How the Other Half Lives') Riis. Wrote T.R.: "I am dealing with the most important, and yet most elementary, problems of our municipal life . . . There is nothing of the purple...
Your cover picture of Menderes does not show the blood of thousands of Greek Orthodox children and women (Istanbul massacre, Sept. 6, 1955). John Foster Dulles' flirtation with the corrupt country of Turkey is one of the greatest shames of today...
...Hindu India now charged that India had "smashed the confidence of the Kashmir people." He accused Nehru's government of discriminating against Kashmir's Moslem majority by denying them army promotions and postal jobs, of setting up a central intelligence bureau in Srinagar to bribe and corrupt his officials, of sabotaging his land-reform program. "I did not betray India," he roared. "It was India that betrayed...
...Breasts of Both Testaments for their Souls' Nourishment. A question-and-answer catechism, written by the grandfather of Boston's famed hell-fire-and-brimstone Preacher Cotton Mather, Spiritual Milk was designed to edify and scare the daylights out of colonial moppets, e.g.: "Q. What is your corrupt nature? Answ. My corrupt nature is empty of Grace, bent unto sin, and onely unto sin, and that continually." It ended with the threat and promise that "the Righteous shall go into life eternall, and the wicked shall be cast into everlasting fire with the Devil and his Angels...
GOGOL, by David Magarshack. A sound, readable biography of the little 19th century Russian neurotic who became one of his country's great novelists. Incredibly, he exposed corrupt Russian bureaucracy and the horrors of serfdom in books of genius while obsessed with the notion that he was really helping to preserve the Russia he loved...