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...Theodore Roosevelt received the Nobel Peace Prize. This is what he said about Peace at Christiania, Norway: '. . . Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy...
...obstacle to yoga," said he. "What is there in the body of a woman? Only such things as blood, flesh, fat, entrails, and the life. Why should one love such a body?" In some of his ecstasies, Ramakrishna regarded himself as a woman and worshipped Kali as her handmaid. Said his woman devotees: "We seldom looked on Sri Ramakrishna as a member of the male...
...bellicose, able Doris Stevens proposed, founded, organized a certain thing called the Inter-American Commission of Women (a sort of handmaid organization to the Pan American Union). Miss Stevens' job does not pay anything. The commission cannot actually do anything-except find an occasional fact, present it to higher authorities. But since 1933 many a scheme to oust her as chairwoman has been hatched...
...then defend it with a Big Navy. He declared that the Navy should not only follow but carry the U. S. dollar into world markets, that the U. S. like imperial Britain should take and govern backward peoples for their own good. A Big Navy he called "the handmaid of expansion...
...George Presbury Rowell started publishing a pocket-size semimonthly journal for advertisers, gave it the chaste title Printers' Ink. U. S. business was feeling the faint stirrings of the machine age. Advertising was destined to become the midwife for mass distribution and Printers' Ink soon became a handmaid for advertisers. Today, Printers' Ink, still pocket-size, is a weekly with 17,803 subscribers who spend nearly all of the nation's annual $1,768,000,000 na tional advertising budget. This week it marked its golden anniversary with a 472-page special edition summarizing the development...