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...Virginia Company. William Shakespeare had heard enough about them to make "The Still-vexed Bermoothes'' the scene of The Tempest. Bermuda today has a population of 30,884 of whom about half are white, half Negro. A sizable section of the white population is not Anglo-Saxon but Portuguese-fishermen, farmers, laborers who migrated there comparatively recently. It is ruled by a Crown Governor who must be an officer in the British Army, by a legislative council and a native representative assembly. Bermuda's last governor was Lieut. General Sir Louis Jean Bols, who died four months...
...their own language Il Duce told the French that he is not what they think, repeating the "Peace Speech" which he made in English on New Year's Day in 1931 to the Anglo-Saxon world (TIME...
...violently emotional, often extremely cruel; that while Washington constantly urged the U. S. to avoid "entangling alliances," Bolivar was an internationalist, dreamed and wrote of a League of Nations with Panama as its Geneva. The real difference is that George Washington was a large, blue-eyed, red-headed Anglo-Saxon. Simon Bolivar was a small, black-eyed Latin. Both were born aristocrats, able generals. Both were friends of LaFayette, both wrote voluminous political treatises which have profoundly affected the courses of their nations. Washington secretly, Bolivar openly mistrusted and despised the common people. Both often led ragged, ill-equipped armies...
...years on Success, was glad to hear it had been chosen by the Literary Guild for November, helped his wife into his U. S. motor, set out for a tour of warmer countries, will not be back for more than a year. Other books: The Ugly Duchess, Two Anglo-Saxon Plays...
...impossible promises are good politics, why not impossible demands? With shrewd vote-getting intent the Saxon Diet voted 82 to 12 a demand that the German Government "immediately initiate negotiations for revision of the Young Plan" (i. e., for reduction of German Reparations payments). Similarly if the New York State Legislature thought that their constituents wanted the moon, they might vote that President Herbert Hoover must go mooning...