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...tombstone trade, last week's convention talked little about business, a lot about art. Dealers and salesmen were driven to cemeteries, taken on a tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shown tombstone art. Sculptors Robert Aitken, Harriet Frishmuth, Charles Keck, Augustus Lukeman and the Piccirilli Brothers lent pieces to the exhibition. And at the annual banquet, the chief address was de- livered by Bainbridge Colby. "I want to use this occasion," declared Woodrow Wilson's last Secretary of State, "to make an earnest plea for the revival of the epitaph. . . . The power of words, suitable and just...
Born and half-bred an Episcopalian (he taught Sunday School, went to church every day in Lent), Upton Sinclair soon graduated into a more intense life as a puritan in Greenwich Village. Readers accustomed to his calves-foot-jelly style may raise an eyebrow when he says that he still has the cadences of the New Testament and the prayer-book running through his head, judges his own sentences by that echo. An optimist from the word go - enemies say he even jumped the gun - Author Sinclair early joined battle with his life-long foe, Determinism. Xo philosopher nor theologian...
When it was a question of "Sacred Union to Save France" in 1934, the Right lent Tardieu and the Left lent Herriot to do nothing as Ministers of State but lend their prestige to the Doumergue Cabinet. When distracted "Papa" Doumergue decided that the sheer rascality of Paris politics left him no alternative but to retire to his farm, M. Tardieu resigned as Minister of State, announcing, "I retire with Doumergue...
...must give the Emperor credit for having lent prestige to moral values in his country and for having made courage, work and persistence respected in a land where only physical force had any value. . . . The numerous Ministers are generally more or less related to the Emperor and the Emperor considers the granting of a Cabinet post a simple method of calming a noisy cousin or a belligerent vassal. . . . Disorder and misadministration make each Ethiopian Ministry a bottomless barrel into which money flows. . . . Emperor Haile Selassie inherited a savage country. . . . He will never be a leader of men, the chief...
...week President Butler received a stern tut-tutting. In his annual report, Dean William F. Russell of Columbia's Teachers College wrote: "The little red schoolhouse, with its ignorant teacher, slight equipment, few books, red-hot stove and icy walls has become glorified in some minds; distance has lent enchantment; and the inference is that if we should only return to the good old days all would be well...