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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...member to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague in 1902 and again in 1908; Woodrow Wilson repeated the appointment in 1912 and again in 1920. President Wilson found his advice and services great help in getting the Covenant of the League of Nations written into the Treaty of Versailles. Wherever Jews were harassed Mr. Straus used his public power to defend them. He was pious in his religious observances; and always kept nailed to the door-posts of his homes a mezuzah, a small case containing the Israelitish creed "Hear, oh Israel, the Lord is God, the Lord...
...many U. S. advertising clubs had already done, the New York Advertising Club last week examined advertisements written by local pastors to explain "What the Church Has to Offer Men." The prize advertisement, written by Dr. Walter Russell Bowie, rector of Grace Church, Manhattan: "Without ideals, life is mean- "Without a purpose, it is flat- "Without inspiring power, it will fail. "The Church can give to men ideals, purposes, power. "In the lives of prophets and heroes and in the life of Jesus Christ, the Church holds up the ideals by which character and achievement must be measured...
Author Schnitzler began to write poetry, "and such bad poetry," when he was ten years old. At 40 he gave up practicing medicine to write. A native of Hungary, he has written the light moods of Vienna into many a book; many a book that he has never written now lies in the prolific incubation of notebooks from which they hatch, briefly and pungently, like bright little birds. Author Schnitzler has never visited the U. S. He fears that the fuss and fume of literary idolaters would overwhelm...
...with splendid visions, he agrees. Follow years of small successes, small sorrows, marriage, babies, undimmed visions. Life's autumn finds Henry definitely shelved -almost pensioned-in the profession he has studied so long but never conquered. He still gazes up at glittering, obviously unattainable pinnacles. Author Williams has written without affection a convincing, saddening story of a man who loved beauty and romance but knew not how to find it. His book gives evidence of much painstaking research in the manner of crabbed Sinclair Lewis. Unlike Author Lewis, Mr. Williams has used this research not to indulge...
...airplane had carried him safely to Paris, there occurred an immediate and overwhelming outburst of bad poetry. Even the more hardened practitioners of this difficult art found their emotions titillated; more than 3,000 of them sent verses to a prize contest conducted so as to determine who had written the best poem about Lindbergh. The three prizewinning poems, and the 97 next best now appear in a book: The Spirit of St. Louis. Five hundred dollars, the first prize, was very appropriately awarded to child-prodigy Nathalia Crane. She expressed 14-year old enthusiasm in a thoroughly competent narrative...