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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word "pacifist" means today when there is no war in sight. Even in time of war there seem to be some fine distinctions to be observed ir, making such a definition. Mr. Norman Thomas's "The Conscientious Objector in America" is a book that is helping intelligent people to understand the type of mind that refuses to accept war as a necessity. It is rather strikingly dedicated to "The Brave, who went for Conscience's Sake to Trench or to Prison...
...agree upon the person. L'Action Française, Paris royalist journal, in advocating the Duc d'Orléans, said: "The example of Italy shows clearly what a real leader can do and what a Parliament cannot do. We ask you to make the Parliament understand that we need a leader, and the leader we need, in the estimation of L'Action Française, must be the hereditary leader, consequently the legitimate heir to the 40 Kings that made France." The Communists, in an election manifesto, urged a real Bolshevik dictator and the enaction...
...understand a proposal has been advanced that such a school be connected with Johns Hopkins University and also that the further proposal has been advanced that, because of his eminent practical service in promotion of sound international relations at a critical period in our history, the name of Walter Hines Page be associated with the school...
...Columbia University" and by "the flippant comments of unthinking critics," journeyed to Paris and to the gate of "the restful garden in which goldfish swim in transparent waters under rose bushes and leafy trees." He found Dr. Voronoff to be "tall, slender, dark, magnetic." Said the Doctor: "You should understand that every physician attends school for many years. His professors teach him that such and such things are facts. When another physician claims to have discovered new facts that seem to contradict or go beyond those previously known and taught, it is not easy for them to accommodate themselves...
...guests at my table were Mr. and Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, Miss Aladeleine Liebert, daughter of Gaston Liebert (French Minister in New York)." Patrick Cardinal Hayes: "My first unecclesiastical speech since returning to my archdiocese was delivered to 4,000 postal employes. To them I said: 'I cannot understand why you have not received the salary increase long ago. You should have used the same methods on the sages in Washington as you used on me when you persuaded me to come here - namely, force...