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...14th and the 18th Amendments. A Main Street inter-racial dialog illuminates the difference: White Man: "Can you vote down here?" Negro: "Oh, yes, sah, I kin vote all right-dat is I kin vote if I kin git registered, but I has been trying to git registered fo' de pas' ten years, and I is always jes' too late or jes' too early." (Other States give the sceptre to the Nordics by making constitutional knowledge prerequisite to the ballot, in which case Negro political aspirants are asked what is meant by the four kinds...
...Reading, Governor-General of India, at present on leave in England, to the Reading† Chamber of Commerce: "On the day I was appointed Vicerory, I recalled the day when, after being two months moored at the quay in Calcutta awaiting a cargo of jute, I stood under the fo'c'sle head taking my small part in heaving away on the capstan...
...never occurred to me, toiling barefooted on the deck and moving among the hands of the fo'c'sle that the time might come when I would live in India as head of the administration, the representative of the King." Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of War, announced that despatches of the first Baron Amherst,* relating to America before, during and after the War of Independence, are to be made available to the public...
Headlined The New York World: "Fee! Fi! Fo! Fum! List to the Numbing Tale of the Tiger and the Welshman as Spun by Wickham Steed. ... No One Else Ever Heard of It." While they awaited the book, U. S. newspaper readers reflected that, of all journalists at the Peace Conference, whilom Editor Steed was probably as near the inner machinery as any; that of all temperaments assembled at Versailles, those of Lloyd George and "Tiger" Clemenceau were perhaps the fieriest; that if such a quarrel had come to pass, it must certainly have been hushed up; that of all reputations...
...first group of etchings contains the masterly "Raising of Lazarus" and the very famous "Hundred Guilder Print", representing Christ healing the sick. Among the landscapes on exhibition are "Three Trees", the "Cottage and Dutch Bay-barn", and the "Gold-weigher's Field", Portraits fo the artist himself, his mother, and the men of his time--Sutma, Sylvius, and his friend, the Burgomaster Six, are also included...