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...William Randolph Hearst, who went to Harvard for three years, is Ogelthorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.) which in return for financial benefactions and a woodsy tract nine years ago gave Publisher Hearst his first university degree. Last week Ogelthorpe made a Doctor of Laws of Mr. Hearst's able, orotund, Red-baiting Atorney John Francis ("Jack") Neylan. Also homored with Litt.D's were Novelists Margaret Ayer Barnes and Thomas Sigismund Stribling...
Several distinguished Jews spoke at last week's meeting, including Chemical Tycoon Lord Melchett and Sir Robert Samuel, famed Liberal. None was more closely attended, however, than orotund Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise of Manhattan, who said: "Theodor Herzl was one of the few men truly epochal . . . because he dared to bid the Jew to be what, for nearly two millenia, he had not dared to be-to be himself, a Jew. . . . Before Herzl came the Jews had been so hurt by the world's ill will that many had denied their own Semitism. Such a denial is infinitely...
...California's Johnson introduced the bill in the early Spring. Utah's Smoot aided Arizona's Ashurst and Hayden, first indirectly, then directly, in delaying the debate. Maryland's Bruce and Tydings and Tennessee's McKellar helped the Arizonans too. But it was the orotund Ashurst and the dogged Hayden who, with desks stacked high with time-consuming documents, talked and talked and talked the bill to a standstill last week...
Five years ago Marcus Garvey, orotund Jamaican, paraded through Harlem, the cultural capital of his race in the U.S., in uniforms brightly befitting "His Highness the Potentate of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Provisional General of Africa." Then he became a janitor of Atlanta Penitentiary. Four years ago he was convicted of fraudulent use of the U.S. mails in selling the stock of Black Star LIne, by which he proposed to transport U.S. Negroes to their aboriginal home and for which he actually purchased a second-hand flagship. He began serving a five-year term...
Among the men there is great deference paid to the orotund school of elocution of which Mr. Jewett is past master Dr. Wangel, the husband of the lady from the sea, alone succeeds in dodging the grand manner and that only on occasion. Jewett, as the Stranger who threatens the Wangels' domesticity, is as pompous and unconvincing of the hollow, haunting eye, as a Falstaff. Professor Arnholm is often a pint-size Jewett, but no matter, the focus is rarely upon...