Word: upliftment
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...Other issues championed by Editor Villard, who is a gentleman in the quaintly literal sense of the word: tolerance and uplift of the Negro, free trade, women's suffrage, child labor laws, free speech. The journalistic tradition of which he is heir was originally voiced by his Abolitionist grandfather, William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the Liberator: "I am in earnest-I will not equivocate-I will not ex-cuse-I will not retreat a single inch- AND I WILL BE HEARD...
...that any large group of people who were being taught to survey their own country with scorn and amusement would form a concentrated market for his imports. Doubtless he also felt some of that superior altruism which a generous man, conscious of his own culture, experiences in helping to uplift the herd. For though Editor Mencken stoutly denies that he is a reformer, an apostle of anything, yet he has written his own definition: "There are also persons who oscillate beautifully between the Uplift and honest lives." Politics, osteopathy, Baptist-thumping, Rotary-scourging, prostitution in Missouri, absurdity in the press...
When Anne Morgan staged a prizefight in Madison Square Garden for the benefit of the War-wracked French peasants, it was not because she was a spinster who had sublimated her activities in "uplift" work. It was because she was a self-determined business woman and a fight was a good stunt. And today, at 54, she more than ever represents and leads independent members of her sex. A business woman, says Miss Morgan, is best characterized by "her utter disregard of business habits...
...dearest enemy, Anti-Saloon League. His parents took him away to Iowa at the age of 3. From behind the plow and with a not unusual schooling, he entered a law office in Cedar Rapids. He ate up the law like so much beefsteak. Iowa, in that era an uplift-crusading Republican community, was no place for this pertinacious Democrat. At 26, he went to Kansas City, Mo. One of his first political jobs was county prosecutor. He secured 285 convictions out of 287 cases during his 15-month term-an astounding record. On such food the inquisitor...
...Abramovitch is Anne Nichols' new production, with a cast of almost 100. It tells of a Russian Jew, whose ideal is uplift of humanity, whom poverty drives to amass a fortune in the U. S., who later loses both fortune and a beloved son, thereupon re-dedicates himself to his original, unmercenary ideal of uplifting humanity. Just how the elevation is to be accomplished is not divulged, but the End of Ends is when "all men love one another like brothers...