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...Rescinded its approval of Charles Augustus Stone as a regent of the Smithsonian Institution...
...Smithsonian Institution, established in Washington 84 years ago through a $508,000 legacy from the illegitimate son of the first Duke of Northumberland, for "the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men," is governed by a chancellor and a board of regents. The chancellor is always the Chief Justice of the U. S. In addition to three Senators and three Representatives, the board of regents is composed of six citizens, most honorable and learned. Such a citizen board member was Charles Evans Hughes until his appointment as Chief Justice automatically advanced him to the Smithsonian chancellorship...
Before Mr. Stone could take his seat on the Smithsonian board with Robert Somers Brookings (board president of St. Louis' Washington University); Irwin Boyle Laughlin (Jones & Laughlin, steel; U. S. Ambassador to Spain); John Campbell Merriam (president of Washington's Carnegie Institution), Frederic Adrian Delano and Dwight Whitney Morrow, Congress had first to pass a joint resolution approving him. With quick and courteous unanimity, the Senate approved such a resolution. Next day Wisconsin's Progressive Senator Robert Marion La Follette rushed upon the Senate floor demanding withdrawal of the Senate's approval of Mr. Stone...
Though it seemed a far cry from the Smithsonian board to power companies, Senator La Follette recalled the connection...
Pigmies. Black manikins parading pompously in a Pharaoh's circus, a Roman lady's ebony toy boy, a living statuette of jet in a Chinese garden-vestiges of their pigmy race peered from New Guinea bushes when Smithsonian's Matthew Williams Stirling flew to the island's mountain reaches. The little men overcame their suspicions of the big explorer. They offered him their bananas, sugar cane and taro, cultivated and prepared with the only three tools they knew of-an axe, a flat, curved knife, a chisel, all made of stone. They made him fire...