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...which Kenya whites hate and which would have astounded Empire Builder Rhodes. It laid down the rule: "The interests of the African natives must be paramount, and that if, and when, those interests, and the interests of the immigrant races should conflict, the former should prevail. . . . The principle of trusteeship for the natives ... is unassailable...
...Washington last autumn, had an elevator installed in La Presidencia, his official residence, in anticipation of President Roosevelt's coming there to dine. Rare is the spot with which Franklin Roosevelt does not trace some family connection, and Panama proved no exception. Opening his dinner speech on the "trusteeship" of the Canal, he remarked...
Secondary effect was that $500,000,000 worth of churches and church property were nationalized-to be left in the clergy's trusteeship for the time being but free to be seized or sold at the first hint of anti-government activity. Only the more conservative realized the tremendous task that the Government was undertaking: training and placing in schools nearly 80,000 lay teachers before Jan. 1, to take the places of the monks and nuns who for centuries have taught Spaniards all that they thought necessary...
...Boston's ancient Athenaeum (library-see p. 20), was elected to the board of American Telephone 6 Telegraph Co. from which he resigned in 1929 after serving 17 years. Secretary Adams was appointed to the advisory board of Boston's Massachusetts Investors Trust last December, accepted a trusteeship in Century Shares Trust last month. As everyone expected after President Walter Sherman Gifford's near-promise in the annual report, A. T. & T.'s board last week declared the regular $2.25 quarterly dividend...
Apart from his medical work, he is a naturalist of repute. A favorite apothegm: "I love to study nature because I find on all her open pages the signature of the Creator, my Father." An Episcopalian, he last year accepted a trusteeship in William Jennings Bryan University at Dayton, Tenn., because like the Great Commoner he is "a thoroughgoing believer in the special creation of Man." He also advocates Prohibition. He once took a five-foot grey & yellow king snake before a Congressional Committee to startle them into approving the creation of Everglades National Park at the southwest...