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...session was given over to a discussion of World Peace. Rotarian William Franke, delegate from Switzerland, almost broke it up by flaying the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill. When Herr Franke sat down, other Rotarians arose, took sides, turned the meeting into a political squabble...
Chicago has no War memorial. Planning one, the city offered a $20,000 prize for a design. Last week, Rotarians were startled to read in their monthly magazine The Rotarian, some suggestions by Chicago War Hero Harold R. ("Private") Peat, "winner of more than one medal for distinguished service." Neither an artist nor an architect, Hero Peat's interest in a War memorial was not esthetic but moral. Said...
...critical, sarcastic, Boob-Baiter Henry Louis Mencken should abandon the American Mercury and edit a Happiness Monthly and Rotarian Booster, it would not arouse greater surprise than the announcement from Moscow last week that a new Soviet magazine. Our Achievements, has been started under the editorship of Maxim Gorky...
...define what Sam Dodsworth was, at fifty, it is easier to state what he was not. He was none of the things which most Europeans and many Americans expect in a leader of American industry. He was not a Babbitt, not a Rotarian, not an Elk, not a deacon. He rarely shouted, never slapped people on the back, and he had attended only six baseball games since 1900. He knew, and thoroughly, the Babbitts and baseball fans, but only in business...
...William John Cooper is a onetime superintendent of public instruction in California, his native State. He is a 32° Mason, a Rotarian. One of his favorite phrases is "the democracy of education," by which he means giving to each student the kind of work he prefers and can do best...