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Israel Zangwill, Anglo-Jewish poet-author: "I made speeches in Manhattan. Said I: 'There is very little of honor, justice or dignity in this country as compared with England. You are also vulgar. . . . You have no shame, no sense of humor. . . . The opinion of a prize- fighter is sought regarding the merits of a judge to be elected and is printed in four-pound superlative waste in your papers...
...debt to. her. He also stated that France would accept no negitiations which brought up the question of the occupation of the Ruhr. In his Sunday sermon at Brive he was as intractable as ever and accused the Germans of being " able to pay the cost in Anglo-Saxon countries of frenzied propaganda to inspire the pity of charitably inclined souls...
...speech at Genoa (1922) Mr. George, speaking to some Anglo-American journalists, chose as his subject the difficulties attending pre-War and post-War debt settlements with the Soviet Government. He spoke for about 20 minutes and throughout his speech he used golfing metaphors. The Allies were " bunkered " for the moment. A skillfully used "niblick " would put them " on the green." He expected to "hole out" in a few days. Tchicherin had momentarily laid the conference a " stymie," et cetera...
Thereupon Claude O. Pike of the Chicago Daily Tribune rushed down to Bolivia to get the facts. The most specific charge (and to Anglo-Saxons the most heinous) was that Saavedra suppressed the press. The second, like unto it, was that he cruelly banished and incarcerated opposition journalists and politicians...
...Blumenschein, William P. Henderson, Victor Higgins, B. J. O. Nordfeldt, Walter Ufer-Blumenschein, Higgins, Ufer are particularly well known as painters of Indian and desert subjects. The purposes of the group are twofold: 1) "To produce beautiful and vital works of art" inspired by the blending of Spanish, Anglo-Saxon and Indian civilizations in the great Southwest (the old Spanish province of Nueva Mexico); 2) to hold annual exhibitions in New York, Chicago and other art centers. The men are mostly progressives, but represent many tendencies and lay emphasis on distinctly personal vision...