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...Godkin, A.M. (Hon.) '71, was one of the leaders of the liberal movement which centered about the New York Nation during the period following the Civil War. The papers of others of the same group, including those of James Russell Lowell '38, Charles Eliot Norton '46, and Henry Villard, owner of the Nation, have been in the possession of the Library for some time. The acquisition of the Godkin papers, therefore, serves to round out a rather complete collection of documents bearing on this episode in the social and political history of the United States...
...Electric. "Bryan was right!" cried he. "Bryan was merely ahead of his time." Other Britons taking these cues, there was soon in full swing last week what might be called a Britain-for-Bryan boom. Boomers included placid Sir Robert Home, onetime British Chancellor of the Exchequer and Rt. Hon. Leopold Stennett Amery, dynamic onetime Colonial Secretary. Electrum? Britain's gold standard tinkerers soon recalled that King Croesus of ancient Lydia was reputedly the first monarch to put the coin of his realm on a gold basis. Before Croesus the Greeks used coins of a gold and silver alloy...
...Yoshizawa assures us that Japan is now withdrawing her troops. . . . I hope that these troops will be withdrawn as rapidly as possible." Dr. Sze could not even get the League to appoint a commission which would supervise the Japanese "withdrawal," if it was taking place. From Washington Hon. Henry L. Stimson sent notes to China and Japan urging them to confine military operations to "the requirements of international law," thus tacitly refusing to invoke the famed Kellogg Pact. Outside China all this seemed perhaps academic, dull. To Chinese "students," young firebrand-patriots who are the leaven in China...
George F. Baker and William Ziegler Jr., are Founder Members. Associates include such men as J. Pierpont Morgan '89, Vincent Astor, Cornelius N. Bliss '97, Cyrus H. K. Curtis, George Eastman, Francis Lee Higginson '00, Otto H. Kahn, Andrew W. Mellon Hon. '26, John J. Raskob, Jesse Isidor Straus '93, and Owen D. Young Hon. '24. The entire membership now number about 200; the remaining 50 of the complete enrolment will be filled from time to time in the future
...every desire has been gratified for political honors, and in 1928 I would have retired from the political field if that great leader of men, the Hon. Alfred E. Smith, had not requested that I again would accept the position of national committeeman from the State of New York. ... I will not accept under any circumstances the membership of the national committee again and I will continue to do, as a private citizen, my very best to bring success to the party...