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...Indian woman, grandmother of Vice President Curtis, is a "squaw'' (TIME, June 15, p. 13, col. 3). By the same reasoning, if any, aren't Irishmen "Micks'" and Frenchmen "Frogs"? All these terms spring from tne noble tradition of Anglo-Saxon superiority and are equally worthy of perpetuation. Is TIME deliberately slighting the "Chinks" and the "Wops...
...Supreme Court. When Lawyer Reilly tried to ask prospective jurors if they were prejudiced against Defendant Aldridge because he was black, the trial judge summarily cut him short, declared his questions were no more proper than would be ones as to whether a talesman liked Irishmen or hated red heads. Negro Aldridge was convicted of murder. On May 8 he was to be electrocuted. Energetic Lawyer Reilly carried the case to the Supreme Court of the U. S. Last week that august tribunal did the very rare thing of voiding a capital conviction and saving a condemned man, at least...
...committee of the American Academy in Rome. Able Savage pupils frequently win the Prix de Rome in painting; three of them enjoy comfortable studios on the Janiculum at the present time. The works of the entire Yale delegation to the College Art show-and they included a Spaniard, two Irishmen, an Italian and a Chinese-looked almost as though it had all been designed by Professor Savage in person...
...stature of the Immortals was unequal. And it was a fair guess that if Old Joe Pulitzer had had to choose a man to carry on his papers, sooner than to Edward Willys Scripps or his seed he would have turned to that kinetic little descendant of fighting Irishmen, Roy Wilson Howard...
...stamp out. Meantime, in London, before adjourning for the holidays, the Indian Round Table Conference decided "in principle" that the upper and lower houses of the new Indian Legislature which they are trying to create, shall be called the "Senate" and .the "House of Representatives.'' The Irishmen asked independence but were content with the "Irish Free State," which has a "President" and a "Senate." If Indians would be content with so little, it is still not likely that Britons would grant it. Up to last week the Round Table Conference had not touched the red-hot question...