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...when Abbott let his pint-sized brother-in-law, a Florida lawyer, take over (1926), the Defender started down the skids. Livelier competitors (the Baltimore Afro-American and Pittsburgh Courier) grabbed a lot of Defender circulation with pictures of barer brownskin and high yaller gals, more chest-thumping against race discrimination. The Defender staff had to be harshly shaken up. The brother-in-law, bounced at last, sued the now-ailing Abbott for $85,000. Mrs. Abbott No. 1 won an expensive divorce suit. Abbott put his favorite nephew in charge of the paper. The Defender went from...
Joseph A. Locke '41, of Adams House, received the Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the American Revolution Medal, presented "To the Senior who displayed outstanding interest, ability, and general excellence... on the required Naval ROTC cruise..." This medal was presented by Lieutenant Ross Courier, USNR, who awarded another prize from the same society to John Lowell '42, of Winthrop House, as "the Junior having highest scholastic standing for the two years of his basic course...
Presenting the argument for intervention in the war, Herbert S. Agar, author and columnist and editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, will speak on "Is England's War Our War?" in the New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock tonight...
Agar lived in England from 1928 to 1934, serving as the literary editor of the English Review, foreign correspondent for the Louisville Courier-Journal, and, for part of the time, attache of the American Embassy in London. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winner "The People's Choice," "The Land of the Free," and "The Pursuit of Happiness...
...Louisville Courier-Journal-We are an emotional people; that is why it will be difficult for us to maintain aloofness from the European tragedy... But now with... the flood of propaganda and falsehood sure to afflict us as it did prior to our entry into the World War, our aroused emotions and sympathies may sweep us off our moorings... We must keep our heads cool and preserve a strict and real neutrality. We are not likely to be able to do that by following a policy which many of us favor of professing neutrality, yet doing everything "short...