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...what they have done to help the poor children of his country and of Central Europe. " My voyage is a message of peace, not of propaganda. I hope my trip here will be a service of good will and peace to both peoples," said he in halting English. Cardinal yon Faulhaber will remain in the United States three weeks...
...will allow me to say so, I am not here as a suppliant to America. I came here to tell you what I know of the action and the objects of the League and to hear from yon, as I hope I shall hear, criticisms and suggestions, not made in a merely carping spirit, but constructed with a desire to advance the great cause which I firmly believe American people have as much at heart as any people in the world...
Newspapers, however, have been very independent about bowing to the creature rushing hither and yon. They have stooped to headlines, to be sure, but that has been merely a hook thrown out to coach the business man. The special editions which have become customary, and the ever-increasing Sunday supplements are more like an obstinate challenge to him. Every newsstand was once a command to stop and think: but now the presses move faster than ever. The business man has nearly been forced to admit defeat...
William McFee is the ship's engineer of a tramp steamer travelling hither and yon over the Seven Seas. This man of machines, who loves the intricacies of boilers and turbines, is at the same time a writer and a thinker of unusual merit. With the eyes of a poet, he surveys the life about him, on shipboard, in unfrequented corners of the earth, and then, in his spare time, he gives his impressions to the world through essays and short sketches that have a scholarly tone reminiscent of Lamb, yet enlivened by a virile strain inseparable from...
...play will be coached by H. yon Kaltenborn and E. F. Hanfstaengl, assisted by Professors Kuno Francke, Walz, and Julius Goebel...