Word: personalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What made the conference unusual was that it apparently violated an ancient custom that all diplomatic matters be conducted by foreign envoys at the U. S. State Department or the White House, not with the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations or any other non-state person. Since Sir Esme is dean of the Diplomatic Corps, the prospect was presented of lesser Ambassadors and Ministers flocking to Capitol Hill to confer with lesser Senators. This prospect recalled the trouble of 1793 when Citizen Genet, as Republican France's first Minister to the U. S., attempted to make...
...reply through the Press last week to the City Council of International Falls, Minn., which had cried "For God's sake, help us!" after the killing of Henry Virkula by a U. S. border patrolman (TIME, June 24). Declared the President: "I deeply deplore the killing of any person. The Treasury is making every effort to prevent the misuse of firearms. . . . I hope the communities along the border will do their best to help the Treasury end the systematic war that is being carried on by international criminals against the laws of the United States...
African savages do not lynch people. Southern white "crackers" do. Psychiatrist A. A. Brill has said: "Anyone taking part in or witnessing a lynching cannot remain a civilized person." Lynching is a handy substitute for the merry-go-round, the theatre, the symphony orchestra and other diversions which "crackers" lack. Author White has enough sense not to present lynch-law as an indictment of civilization below the Mason-Dixon line. Instead he conducts an inquiry which blames, not the whole white Southern civilization itself, but elements thereof...
...found the title in John Donne: "But, because Angels could not propagate, nor make more Angels, he enlarged his love in making man, that so he might enjoy all natures at once, and have the nature of Angels, and the nature of earthly Creatures, in one Person...
Death, passion and intelligence played prime parts in Elinor Wylie's verse. To "One Person" she dedicated a wreath of 19 love sonnets. The octet to the fifth...