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...study, Fabian Franklin, economist and likewise journalist, Mr. Sullivan's senior by 22 years, scanned the article. He was accustomed to spying an error a day in the press. He was accustomed to let them pass in silence. But these errors by famed Mr. Sullivan were too flagrant to endure. To the New York Times he wrote hotly: "We note an astonishing error in the mere statement of bald facts. President Wilson's term did not end until March...
Governor Thomas G. McLeod of South Carolina, whose Fabian policy in the investigation of the Aiken lynchings (TIME, Nov. 29) is well known, went out of office last week with this sentence in his farewell address: "I earnestly hope that law-abiding citizens will back up the prosecutions, that the jurors will have the courage to do their duty; that the perpetrators of this horrible crime may be brought to the bar of justice and dealt with as they deserve...
Three days later Johns Hopkins bestowed a Ph.D. diploma upon the wife of Dr. Oilman's biographer, Mrs. Christine Ladd Franklin, wife of Fabian Franklin, onetime editor of the Independent. Educators took interest because that bestowal indicated the great change that has come over U. S. education in less than half a century...
...Glasgow prepared to elect their Lord Rector,? no less a quipster than George Bernard Shaw drew his quill as an electioneer. To the Student Leader, a pamphlet issued by the Labor Club of Glasgow University, he contributed an article supporting for the rectorship his veteran friend of many Fabian battles, Sidney Webb,* sometime Labor Cabinet member and President of the Board of Trade. As the two other candidates were Austen Chamberlain, His Majesty's Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and Gilbert Keith Chesterton, famed Author-Journalist, Mr. Shaw did not lack distinguished targets for his shafts...
...dinner attended by some 400 Rhodes Scholars and a scattering of British notables-Viscount Grey, Viscount Milner, Rudyard Kipling. It seemed that Greene had given the impression that, to all Americans attending it, Oxford was a disappointment; that all were eager to be home again; that the Fabian Society (Socialist) was the British ideal most acceptable to Americans; that Ramsay MacDonald was to Americans the ideal British statesman. A heavyset, earnest young man arose, addressed the chair. Soft-voiced, but serious, this was one Edward Egan, Yale Rhodes Scholar at New College, incidentally the amateur heavyweight boxing champion...