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...fact that the Trinity vestry invited a Red into this atmosphere there were only a few possible explanations. The vestry may have been sublimely ignorant of the background of earnest young Bradford Young-which it later denied. It undoubtedly was influenced by California's Episcopal Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons, who recommended Mr. Young and who is himself openly a Socialist in the face of disheartening opposition...
...young New Deal lawyers, present last week only as "friends of the court," this legal background appeared distinctly "suspicious." SECounsel Burns questioned the court's jurisdiction, accused the interested lawyers of "collusion" and "professional impropriety." Those are serious charges in any court and, coming from a man about half his age, they made Mr. Davis boil. Rising with dignity he thundered...
...Ambassador to Mexico, Senator from New Jersey, whose life receives at Harold Nicolson's hands an intelligent and exhaustive review such as few U. S. capitalists have enjoyed. Beginning with an apology for the inability of an English author to comprehend all the factors of a U. S. background, Harold Nicolson presents Morrow as a "completely civilized man," the possessor of an extraordinarily modern type of mind. His apology is misplaced, since Dwight Morrow reveals Nicolson's remarkable grasp of U. S. history, politics, social life, but nowhere establishes convincingly its subject's claim to originality, insight...
Fifth admonishes, "Honor thy father and mother." A young tree represents youth, its 613 leaves (in the form of the letter Yod which means God) the 613 good deeds a pious Jew must perform. In the background are the first words of the Kaddish, a prayer spoken daily for eleven months and annually thereafter for one's deceased parents...
...Arms of the University on the other hand, consist of the familiar three open books (silver on white) with covers, clasps, and edges (gold or yellow) and the letters VE RI TAS on the books in black. The background is bright, clear...