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...first U. S. member of their race to be entertained in the White House proper since Oct. 18, 1901, when President Roosevelt had the late Booker T. Washington at his luncheon table.* After that occasion there was such a socio-political commotion that President Roosevelt thought it best to explain that Booker T. Washington had called while the President was just finishing his lunch and had been invited into the dining room "to save time." No such aftermath followed Mrs. De Priest's visit. In fact, almost before Washington started buzzing this time, George Akerson, the President...
...heard quite a bit of it early last year. If he heard last week's Washington talk he did not show it but prepared, after the wedding, to present his "private citizen" self in Washington; to report with his colleague John Pierpont Morgan to President Hoover; to explain, as one economist to another, just what the Young Plan of readjusted reparations means to the U. S., as to world peace. First to bestow formal Kudos upon Hero Young was the Roosevelt Memorial Association, which last week voted him one of its three annual three-inch golden Distinguished Service Medals...
...cloistered monk. Wearying of the religious life he broke his vows and joined the army. It is often said that none but a Frenchman can hope to rise above the rank of Captain in the Foreign Legion. But it is also true that one need not explain all one's antecedents to the Legion. Anything but French in appearance, red-thatched Freydenberg nevertheless had such Gallic dash that he became Major, Colonel, and after the Moroccan campaign of 1926 against Abd-El-Krim, General of Brigade...
...spiritual character,' 'spiritual value,' and 'joint worship at the Lord's table.' I have never heard anyone explain what those things mean. "We need to talk out of our own experience, not in the language of the past. Instead of saying 'The Lord is my shepherd' you ought to be saying 'God is my storage battery that renews my strength' or 'God is my low gear that takes me up the hills.' "I do not believe the Church now, or its representatives look upon its function as saving...
...difficulty in finding anyone who can explain the hidden symbolism of the paintings prevents perhaps any indefensible comment upon the emotional result of careful attention to these decorations. The fact, however, that the recumbent figure in the left hand picture wears a helmet strikingly like that of a German infantryman and that standing over him there is an obvious Yankee doughboy clutching Victory and Death lends color to the theory that the natural effect should be one of intense sympathy for the American and something very like hatred for his slayer...