Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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British skippers, haughtiest in the world, who gasped with astonishment when Herbert Hartley was given the Leviathan in 1923 ahead of "Handsome Harry" Cunningham-gasped because Hartley was then jobless after grounding first the Manchuria and then the Mongolia of the American Line, whereas Cunningham was right in line for the post, being skipper of the George Washington-were inclined to mix sympathy with their blame last week. "It was jolly bad work," said one of them, "but jolly worse luck. On his very first trip, too-tch, tch. Maybe Hartley left his luck on that Leviathan...
...rhapsodized the aged but active Atlanta Constitution last week, not in a book review but right spang on the editorial page. The "spot" news was that the Waverly Press, Inc. (Baltimore) had published a re-edition of The Earth Upsets by Chase Salmon Osborn, LL.D.-a geology book for laymen...
...House of Representatives, the loud one was Representative James A. Gallivan of Massachusetts, whose specialty is alliterative abuse. Quoth he at the beginning of last week: ". . . Prohibition, its proconsuls, parasites, and plug-uglies . .,. has even reserved to itself and its allies a monopoly of murder-murder without penalty. The right to murder Americans abroad without fear or favor, it delegates to bandit organizations; the right to murder Americans at home by poisonous liquors remains with the Anti-Saloon League and its allied bootleggers, and the right to wreck and drown American sailors and shoot up foreign seamen goes...
...Three resolutions condemning various phases of immigration restriction were adopted by the Conference in plenary session, last week. After each was read out, a U. S. Delegate, Henry Prather Fletcher, able U. S. Ambassador to Italy, rose and announced that the U. S. reserves to itself the right of determining its own "purely domestic" immigration policy without reference to any international authority whatever...
...when a Government breaks down? Are we to see our American citizens butchered? I am not speaking of sporadic disorders but of cases in which the Government itself is unable to function. It is a principle of international law that under such circumstances another Government has the right, I will not say to intervene, but to interpose in a temporary manner to protect the lives and interests of its nationals...