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...salute. The black population with its 5% sprinkling of whites massed in Emancipation Park to watch Governor Pearson take the oath of office, hear his inaugural address. They were all in good humor because the ceremony marked the transfer of their government from the Navy under Capt. Waldo Evans to the Department of the Interior. The blackamoors (who speak Danish) stared in wonderment as Governor Pearson, who used to teach public speaking at Swarthmore College, rolled out a sonorous address in which he recognized the islands' "critical economic problems" and promised to aid in their relief...
...lectures by H. W. Garrod, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will be presented in a volume entitled "Poetry and the Criticism of Life". Professor Garrod centers his criticism chiefly around the work of Matthew Arnold, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Arthur Hugh Clough. A striking analysis of Robert Bridges' "Testament of Beauty" is included...
...President appointed Paul Martin Pearson of Swarthmore, Pa., elocutionist, Red Cross speaker, Quaker, to be first Civil Governor of the Virgin Islands. Purchased from Denmark in 1917, the islands have hitherto been in charge of the Navy Department with Captain Waldo Evans, retired, as governor. Jurisdiction of the Virgin Islands now passes from the Navy to the Department of the Interior...
...thoughts while on your feet you'd better sit down." An adroit phrase maker, he knows the dramatic value of repetition. It was Borah who said of Mexico: "God made us neighbors; let justice make us friends." Daniel Webster is his political hero, Ralph Waldo Emerson his philosophic guide, Honore Balzac his chief source of literary amusement. Once in puritanical disgust he burned a whole set of Frank Harris in his office...
...Virgin Islands are governed by the Navy Department. Present Governor is Captain Waldo Evans, U. S. N. retired, who distinguished himself while Wartime commander of the U. S. S. New Orleans and St. Louis by transporting and escorting troops and supplies to Europe. He is round-faced, square-shouldered, out spoken. Virgin Islanders like him. A month ago he wanted some livestock for his dominion. Last week some of the cor respondence which occurred during the transaction was made known. Said the Governor of the Virgin Islands to the Chief of Naval Operations : WOULD BE GLAD TO HAVE...