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...Quitter? Coward? Editorial sentiment was overwhelmingly but not unanimously with the fleeing Lindberghs. After a conventional expression of shame and regret, the Milwaukee Journal declared: "We say that after making due allowance for the somewhat peculiar personality of Colonel Lindbergh...
...Soviet Russia to enter the League of Nations.** Strongly urging this, Sir John cried to the House of Commons: "Which do you prefer, this immense power [Russia] inside or outside the collective system of the League?" He then took a remarkable poke at League-Quitter Japan: "I neither wish to proclaim Japan the King's enemy nor Soviet Russia as my special friend! . . . Certainly we are prepared to welcome Russia warmly to the League of Nations if Russia makes application. We are satisfied it will contribute to the peace of the world...
...president of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, board president of Philadelphia's Drexel Institute; of cancer; in Philadelphia. Last February when his stepson John R. Fell sensationally died of a knife wound in Solo, Java, Alexander Van Rensselaer protested it could not be suicide because Fell was "not a quitter" (TIME. March...
...heard him rise from the table, stagger and fall with a big table knife in his chest. She pulled it out, had hysterics. His stepfather Alexander Van Rensselaer, president of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, called Fell "not the kind of man to take his own life . . . not a quitter." In 1923 Fell was fined $500 and costs on his discharged butler's complaint that Fell and two servants had beaten him and tried to brand him with a torch because the butler knew Fell rang false fire alarms for excitement. Next month his wife divorced him on grounds...
Until last week nobody considered "Jimmy" Walker a quitter. Even after he turned out to be the first Mayor of New York to resign under fire, hundreds of thousands of citizens refused to think the worst of him. Radio Crooner Morton Downey, Publisher Generoso Pope (Il Progresso-Italo-Americano) and Theatre Man Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal were among the first to rush to his flower-filled Mayfair apartment on Park Avenue where he was lolling around in blue silk pajamas and assure him that, even out of office, he was still "the greatest fellow on earth...