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...invariably add "bridge expert" to "Ely Culbertson?" When will your editorships decide to give me a teeny-weeny diploma promoting me to even a half-expert on international affairs ? And what have world affairs to do with the well-known fact that I am a bridge expert? After all, the greatest peace plan on earth or in heaven came from a Carpenter...
...CULBERTSON New York City...
...some it seemed as minimal as could be devised without being nationalist, rather than internationalist. Most Americans found the program unexceptionable-what there was of it. And there was nothing in it that most Republican leaders had not already endorsed. But a loud denunciation came from Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson, who has his own, mathematically rigid plan for world peace. Said he: "The plan will prove a bitter disappointment to the internationalists, who are determined that this time the U.S. shall not cheat the world; and to the nationalists, who are equally determined that this time the world shall...
Married. Margaret Lou Culbertson Scripps, widow of the late Publisher Robert Paine Scripps (son of company-heir of Scripps-Howard Founder Edward Wyllis Scripps); and William Waller Hawkins, portly, pince-nezed chairman of Scripps-Howard's board; in Minden...
...brilliant and bitter catfight. As a tiger among lesser cats, Beard claws all his enemies in this particular chapter to death. Beard's opponents have fictitious names, but it is easy to identify them with the beliefs of Dr. James Shotwell, Clarence Streit, Ely Culbertson, Wendell Willkie, Herbert Agar, Pearl Buck and others. The weakness of this foreign-policy symposium derives from its satirical intent, which is not in keeping with The Republic as a whole. Walter Lippmann, for example, could undoubtedly make out a good case for an Anglo-American understanding in support of Beard's "continentalism...