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...basis of scholarship rating but primarily because they will be adjudged to be boys of high character, possessed of attractive personality, gifts of leadership and of promise for future usefulness. ... I wish each award to serve not only as a memorial to my son but to the Anglo-Saxon race, to which the United States owes its culture. ... I direct that such beneficiaries shall be confined to those boys who shall be ... the sons of white Christian parents of Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian or Teutonic descent, both of whom are citizens of the United States and were born in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Anglo-Saxons | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

...attributed to me could only have been made by a man of violent and vulgar temper." In an injured tone the big man continued softly, "What hurt me most was the idea that somebody would say I would burn down the finest seat of learning in the Anglo-Saxon world. It is just like saying I would burn down Goethe's or Schiller's house. ... I did not roar at Thompson, I did ask him, 'What would they say if those Communists burnt down their Oxford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Sorrows of a Hanfstaengl | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...work, kept an Irish mistress, studied military strategy in preparation for the World Revolution. Reading constantly, Engels learned "to stutter in 20 languages," learned Persian in three weeks, once wrote that he was going to take a fortnight off to master Gothic before studying Old Nordic and Old Saxon. Less ambitious, Marx merely studied Russian, Serbian, Slavic. In one period when he could not work, the scholar read for recreation two volumes on physiology, Kolliker's Histology, Spurzheim's The Anatomy of the Brain and the Nervous System, Schwann & Schleiden's On Cell Matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Red Father | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

When this communique first came through from Rome the phrase in quanta esse was mistakenly translated, "as," and Anglo-Saxon headlines announced MUSSOLINI SAYS "NO." On the contrary, Italy's Geneva Delegation declared, Premier Mussolini could only have inserted "insofar as" (in quanta esse), "to leave the door ajar for negotiation." Next day Il Duce, having thus far done nothing but reject offers, made Italy's first proposals. His League Delegate Baron Aloisi asked, in effect, for a partial League mandate over Ethiopia. The country's armed forces would be largely under Italian advisers to the Emperor, and exclusively mandated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Bullying & Bluffing | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...murder because Smith was last seen when he left his home to go fishing with Brady. "Keep your mouth shut!" lawyers advised, and Pat Brady set his Irish jaw. Last week before the Commonwealth's High Court Brady's counsel cited a basic maxim of Anglo-Saxon law, argued: "There can be no inquest, much less a trial for murder, without a corpus delicti and one tattooed human arm disgorged by a shark is not a body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Shark Mystery | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

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