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...World disarmament must take place immediately," declared Oswald Garrison Villard '93, editor of the Nation and a former president of the CRIMSON, in a recent interview." A delegation headed by Alanson B. Houghton '86, former ambassador to Great Britain, and Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, should be appointed immediately to go to Geneva and demand that the world disarm. If this is not done at once, the Allies will not be living up to their word that they would disarm to the level of Germany as soon as possible...
...medals, promotion, respect and fear. Out of a job when the Revolution broke up the Russian Army, Tarabas went home with the faithful fragment of his regiment, only to find that his native land was no longer a part of Russia but an independent country. As commander of the garrison town of Koropta, Tarabas was not so happy or so successful as he had been in the field. When a pogrom occurred, Tarabas was too drunk to check it in time. Next day he encountered a half-witted Jew who was disobeying the regulations about staying indoors. In his fury...
...handsome, well-dressed people who gathered there to celebrate the 50th birthday of the famed Manhattan girls' school which he started in a small brownstone house on East 45th Street. They were proud that Brearley had attracted the daughters of Cleveland H. Dodge, Herbert L. Satterlee, Oswald Garrison Villard, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Felix M. Warburg, Owen D. Young. They were proud that Brearley had schooled such distinguished personages as Dean Virginia Gildersleeve of Barnard, Mrs. Charles Carey Rumsey, Sculptress Malvina Hoffman, Actresses Michael Strange and Hope Williams, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney...
...been my fate from earliest childhood to live in the presence of wealth which belonged to others." The family moved to Manhattan, where Upton put himself through Columbia as a special student by writing boys' adventure stories for the pulp magazines under the names of "Lieutenant Frederick Garrison, U. S. A." and "Ensign Clarke Fitch, U. S. N." In 1900, when he was 22, he married Meta Fuller, whose father was a newspaperman, whose mother was an old friend of Mrs. Sinclair's. They had a baby at once but the parents separated them until Upton could make...
Stankovitch, a Serb, and Perovitch, a Croat, are sympathetic to Croatian aspirations. But there was a joker up Alexander's political will. Should anything happen to these regents he had three substitutes. The most important was the ironfisted, fire-eating Serb, General Vojeslav Tomitch, commander of the Belgrade Garrison...