Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lobbies a $43,000,000 League of Nations loan to Austria, largely underwritten by France and Britain in the belief that the Dollfuss Government is the sheet anchor of peace in Eastern Europe. Last week in Berlin peppery French Ambassador André Francois-Poncet left a stiff note at the Foreign Office and bland British Chargé d' Affaires Basil Newton protested verbally that German Nazi efforts to overthrow the Dollfuss Government are contrary to Germany's obligations under the Treaty of Versailles and more especially to the Four-Power Peace Pact recently signed in Rome by Britain...
...March to the Sea, Union soldiers stole two pigs from the Georgia estate of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy. Last week Sherman's grandnephew, Lieutenant John B. Sherman, sent two Poland-China pigs to Captain Thomas Jefferson Davis at the War Department in Washington. He enclosed a note...
...Warren Johnson of California; by his own hand (pistol); in his home outside San Francisco. An artillery major in the World War, wounded at Chateau Thierry, he was said by friends to have suffered from recurrent shell-shock. Divorced in June from Martha Ruddy Leet Johnson, he left a note in verse, ending: "Forgive me, God. for all I've done to please that ever-grasping one who took my very life...
...time of reconstruction such as this country is passing through at the present, along with the serious stabilizing attempts there are always amusing sidelights. In spite of the grimness in the air and the importance of success, it is interesting to note how differently groups now act in the face of a common danger...
Whittier's very name sounds to modern ears like the tremulous, piping voice of an aged Victorian. In a stout effort to deepen and dignify Poet Whittier's note Biographer Mordell writes this life of Whittier, the first in almost 30 years. Author Mordell denies that his hero was "a modest, mild and passionless saint," admits that he eventually became a "reactionary and religionist . . . harmless genial poet of the people," but reminds the reader that Whittier was also a "mil itant and radical agitator who was charged on a number of occasions with blasphemy and sedition. . . . This favorite...