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...writers and editors, but foreign Governments also contribute. During the Ethiopian crisis of 1935 the Italian Government bought a few editorial pages. The way some prominent Paris newspapers have handled their German "news" recently suggests that slush funds from the Third Reich are also being passed around. In pot & kettle fashion, Leftist editors have cried that the Rightist press lived on funds from Germany and Italy, while Rightist editors pictured the Leftist press getting gold from Moscow...
...these hybrids survived in Europe as hunters and fishers. Meanwhile, in the Mediterranean area a race of pure Homo sapiens ancestry appeared which learned agriculture and animal husbandry. Some of them moved north and west to blend with the hunters and fishers. Thus the European melting pot was set to boil, and hundreds of further migratory stirrings, major and minor, kept it seething...
...lofty ballroom of the Cleveland Auditorium, Vice President Ed Hall of C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers of America made a speech one day last week. After dwelling upon the factional feuds which had nearly wrecked the most promising of C. I. O.'s newer unions, pot-paunched Brother Hall observed: "I say that this organization must be like a cat with nine lives. . . . Unless you can put men in office and quit . . . sniveling, snitching and jibing at those individuals, you will never have unity, you will never have a constructive, democratic, militant organization...
Bernard Berenson is a frail, spirited, punctilious greybeard of 73 and a U. S. citizen. His life has been such a courtship of opportunity by intelligence as only the Melting Pot is supposed to produce, and in fact it produced him. His family were Jewish immigrants from Lithuania who settled in Boston soon after the Civil War. They were poor but they thirsted for culture, and young Berenson worked himself through Boston University with an eye to a literary career. The beautiful and dashing Mrs. Jack Gardner, then engaged in setting Boston on its ear, discovered his brilliance and helped...
...generation ago, U. S. immigrants found sanctuary and a melting pot in church or shop. Today's immigrants, a more intellectual group, find both in school. Most famed German immigrants welcomed by U. S. schools are Thomas Mann, now at Princeton, and Albert Einstein, at the nearby Institute for Advanced Study. At the New School for Social Research in Manhattan is a "University in Exile," whose entire faculty consists of European notables. But it is as students, not teachers, that many refugees have found a chance to begin life afresh in U. S. colleges,* public and private schools...