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...Ralph Beaver Strassburger. Mr. Strassburger is a person of some activity in Republican politics in Pennsylvania. When ho heard of the State Department's action he rushed down to Washington. He had an interview with President Coolidge and was doubtless respectfully treated. He had an interview with Secretary Kellogg and got no satisfaction. He told the Secretary of State that the Countess had canceled her lecture tour. He asked the Secretary of State on what grounds Countess Karolyi was refused a visa. Mr. Kellogg replied that the State Department had confidential information and refused to disclose it. Mr. Strassburger...
Altogether there was $168.68 involved. The candidate who was defeated in 1912 was receiving about $50 a day for being present. The candidates defeated in 1916 and 1924 were doubtless receiving much greater compensation. So it would seem that there was little profit in the proceeding. But as usual behind the scenes there was a principle and several millions of principal. So the Guaranty Trust Co. of Manhattan was recompensed for the expense of hiring the defeated candidate of 1924, and Zimmermann & Forshay were recompensed for the expense of the defeated candidate of 1916-the expense of having them appear...
...doubtless was with an article which appeared last week in the Saturday Evening Post, an article entitled "With The Shenandoah," by Zachary Lansdowne, U. S. Navy. At this end the editor appended a note: "This article was written by the late Lieutenant Commander Lansdowne some weeks before the last trip of the Shenandoah and was found among his papers...
...Naval Court of Inquiry investigating the loss of the Shenandoah wrote to the editor of the Post asking whether the article was authentic (as it doubtless was) and whether it was complete as Commander Lansdowne first submitted it. Indeed, rumor in Washington had it that he had submitted the article some weeks before his death and it had been returned, and that when the Post got it again some paragraphs had been deleted. This view seemed to be supported when Mrs. Lansdowne admitted that she had taken out some paragraphs concerning the possibility of using the Shenandoah in the Arctic...
There are college propagandists who will say so, and who doubtless will believe so. Yet such remarks, and such beliefs can only display a sad misconception of the place and purpose of institutions of higher education in American life, a failure to discriminate between the essential and the incidental...