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...usage in England. I repeat, I am a British citizen and I have no prejudice either way, but I trust that none of your readers will regard the grotesque effusion of Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse as representative of English culture, English critcism or English sentiment. FRANK VINCENT WADDY...
President George Edgar Vincent of the Rockefeller Foundation last week published a preliminary statement of what the Foundation accomplished last year...
...Foundation for his particular work next year. But wheedling the Rockefeller Foundation for money is in vain. Its program is definite, although by no means inflexible. Their trustees, with John D. Rockefeller Jr. at their head, decide on a year's program; their administrators, organized by President Vincent, accomplish that program...
This situation produced a note of protest to the U. S. Department of State from Vincent Massey, Canadian Minister to the U. S. Last fortnight Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg replied. He regretted that the order would "cause some hardship," said that "those who obviously cannot hope to receive immigration visas for some time to come" would be "clearly informed of their status" so that they could "make their plans accordingly." He also promised that, if necessary, the six-month time allowance before the order takes effect would be extended. And, finally, he promised to bring the question...
Distinguished ladies and gentlemen met in a Manhattan theatre last fortnight to pay a U. S. poet the almost archaic compliment of hearing his newest work and appraising it. They were Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, Kermit Roosevelt, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Lament, Dr. & Mrs. William Lyon Phelps, Dr. & Mrs. Henry Seidel Canby and many another including Critic Carl Van Doren whose position with the Literary Guild of America made him a sort of esthetic promoter of the evening, and Mrs. August Belmont (stage name: Eleanor Robson), who read aloud for all. The poet was Edwin Arlington Robinson...