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...traveled extensively, read voraciously, married Margaret Mason Perry, a granddaughter of Oliver Hazard ("We-have-met-the-enemy-and -they -are -ours") Perry. He rather disliked and distrusted the U. S. scene, the U. S. citizenry. In his later years it gave him an actual physical revulsion to shake hands with or touch strangers. As an artist he had a magnificent sense of composition, easily held his own in a generation of great draughtsmen: Sargent, Homer, Pennell, Abbey. Critics rate him among his contemporaries somewhere between Edwin Blashfield and John Singer Sargent. Like theirs, his mural paintings were always...
...South American called Chile Mapocha Acuna La-tore, onetime waiter at Washington's Congressional Country Club. Lounging in the witness chair, this individual made a series of rank revelations about his services to the police department.* Informer Latore said he had participated in several hundred "frame-up" and "shake-down" arrests of women. The method: he would seek out and compromise a woman, wait for the police to arrive. If she were willing to bribe the officers, Latore got a split of $5 or $10. If she would not pay, at least the police got credit for an arrest...
...presidents. Professors dismissed got no notice, discovered it by reading newspapers. They noted that they were replaced by Bilbomen, that many an extra job had been created; state legislators were listed as proctors and night watchmen, one was "honorary captain of grass-cutters." Results of the shake-up were soon apparent : U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde objected to a Bilbo appointee at Mississippi Agricultural & Mechanical College, one Lee Denson, threat to withdraw Federal aid ($340,000 Governor Bilbo gave in, re Mr. Denson with L. A. Olsen, agree to Secretary Hyde. The American Medical Association served notice...
...with Adolph Simon Ochs, publisher of the New York Times; when he spoke on Zionism over the radio, when he went to the Metropolitan Opera House to hear Maria Jeritza sing Carmen; when he was escorted to City Hall by Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler to shake hands with wisecracking little Mayor Walker...
Perhaps the unpleasant contacts of the early stages of a political apprenticeship discourage such ambitions or perhaps the seeds of indifference and cynicism have been too well planted in the American mind to shake them out of their attitude of laissez faire towards the management of public affairs. A more far sighted conception of the importance of the responsibilities to be assumed in political activity and courage and willingness on the part of college men to enter an unpopular profession would put the control of government on a healthier and more efficient basis...