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...generously defrayed from His Majesty's privy purse. Not until a generation later did the Powers fully realize that they had allowed Uncle Leopold to seize, under humanitarian pretexts, one of the richest colonial empires on the Globe. Astounding is the story of how British-born & U. S.-bred Henry Morton Stanley, greatest African explorer, sought to convince U. S. and British statesmen of the boundless worth of the Congo; of how he was feted as an explorer but had his practical suggestions ignored, and finally joined reluctant forces with Belgium's Leopold. Belated exposures of "Belgian Atrocities...
Advisory Chairman-Peter Gollet Gerry, the wealthy well-born Harvard-bred hound-riding U. S. Senator from Rhode Island who upset traditional Republican calculations in his state as a young man (1916-he is now 48) and has since continued popular with his state's large labor vote...
...from, infantile paralysis. With his limp and cane and the stretch of suffering on his face, he might have made an appeal to the audience more emotional than any of the other speakers. Instead, he held himself erect and delivered what all critics agreed was the most intelligently well-bred speech of either of the big conventions. He recited his friend's fitness for office in terms of his record in office. He offered him as a governor who had "power to impart knowledge of, and create interest in, government." He said, in an even voice that was more persuasive...
...issued, while Mr. Crandall, dodging away from the enraged dancer, was booed, hissed and subjected to fruit-throwing. Five minutes later, it was announced that an injunction had been secured which would permit the marathon to continue 22 hours longer. Couple No. 7, despite their unruly and ill-bred behaviour, were permitted to remain upon the floor...
CATHERINE-PARIS - Princess Marthe Bibesco-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). This faithful chart of the peregrinations of high society in pre-War Europe is shocking evidence of just how pre-War dull those peregrinations were. Rumanian born, but bred in democratic Paris, Princess Catherine marries an Austro-Polish count, who withdraws immediately to his round of mistresses, leaving his consort to make her rounds of pompous European courts. Though Franz Joseph, Wilhelm II, and the Czar are the objects of the princess's irony, they prove as boring to her as to her readers. Not until she gets back...