Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incubator Baby. As mayor, Bill O'Dwyer governs more people than live in many a sovereign nation. New York is still a melting pot. It has more Irish (500,000) than Dublin, more Jews (2,000,000) than Palestine, almost as many Italians (1,095,000) as Rome. It has 412,000 Poles, 57,000 Czechs, 54,000 Norwegians, 53,000 Greeks. Half a million Negroes are jammed into New York, alongside almost a quarter-million Puerto Ricans. Mayor O'Dwyer can never be free of the fear of a bloody riot in Harlem. He has other enormous...
...come to the end of a policy. At Bogotá, the American nations had agreed to junk the old practice of not recognizing dictatorial or unpopular governments. Last week the U.S. (and Colombia) recognized the sovereign state of Nicaragua, ruled over by smirking, slippery Dictator Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza...
...Princess will startle readers who think of James, the expatriate, as the man who was saddened because his own U.S. had "no sovereign, no court, no aristocracy . . . nor manors, nor thatched cottages, nor ivied ruins." It is a novel of explicit social significance, about London's anarchist workers and their starry-eyed aristocratic sympathizers. Columbia Professor Lionel Trilling, in a 15,000-word introduction to The Princess, credits James with "a first-rate rendering of literal social reality." But the reader will probably feel that for all James's intentions, his poor are specimens under-glass, people...
Died. Thomas Sovereign Gates, 75, onetime Morgan partner, longtime (1930-44) president of the University of Pennsylvania, and chairman of its board of trustees since 1944; in Osterville, Mass. A wealthy Philadelphian, he gave up banking to run his alma mater, without pay, for the sake of "romance and high adventure...
...time in the world's history when the need for such a constitution was more desperate and the chances of its adoption more remote than ever. Not even the drafting committee itself had been able to agree on the noble synopsis of salvation, to which half a hundred sovereign nations would have to agree before it could become reality. The committee's own chairman, Philosopher Richard McKeon, refused to sign the draft because he disagreed with it. Said Hutchins: the report was something to talk about...