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When infidel newsgatherers sit down to describe The Day of Judgment, their accounts may perhaps resemble those which trickled over improvised wires last week from the Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia, recently earthquake smitten (TIME...
...more appropriate organization could be named as the one to erect a memorial to Joseph Conrad than the Seaman's Institute. And in choosing a Library--to be built in New York--as the most fitting monument to the late writer the Institute has exercised good judgment, for thus will be united the two strongest influences in Conrad's life literature and the sea. The announcement of the members of the honorary committee elected to act with the Board of Managers is sufficient proof that the library will be proportionate to the genius of the man whose name it bears...
Legal involutions and complexities are interesting if taken in small doses. And they have never been more naively (or more publicly) exploited than in the trial of the California apostle Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson. Until the jury renders a verdict one cannot help matters by passing private judgment on the lady; but one may--and millions of newspaper readers do--derive considerable entertainment from the agile antics of her lawyers. In fact out of the various journalistic menus which have been served the public continuously for seven months the McPherson affair wears the best...
...desire, as business men, to draw attention to certain grave and disquieting conditions which, in our judgment, are retarding the return to prosperity...
...great wealth, who, having purchased extensive estates in New England, had emigrated to Massachusetts in 1738. Isaac Royall settled in Charlestown, of which town he was a Representative for nine years. Later, he became a Counsellor, and held that office until 1774. However, says Josiah Quincy '28, "his judgment was not in unison with the patriotic spirit of the times. After the battle of Lexington he sailed for England, where he remained until his death." His former popularity saved his estates from confiscation under the "conspirators act," but the Government took possession of his property under the fact for confiscating...