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...early '20s, Brigadier General Billy Mitchell let the blasphemy roll off his curly tongue-and wrecked a brilliant military career. Admiral Sims, who had a beard and a social background, uttered sacrilegious sentiments about air power and was not struck down, but the bodacious blurt did him no good with his brother Navy men. Since their brash days, no active service man has publicly peeped on the forbidden subject...
Stalin, Mussolini and an unidentified Japanese cock their ears in the background (see cut). Said Hungerford: "We figured that cartoons combining humor with serious fact would have more of an appeal to the average worker than most ordinary conventional posters." Because FBI cannot engage in commercial activity (Hungerford and Sherman expect to make their work pay), it could not sponsor the posters. But by week's end, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. had bought 3,600, Westinghouse 1,680; other defense manufacturers were standing in line for their share...
...will probably determine the outcome of next year's Presidential election. Leading candidate for the Presidency is onetime (1934-38) President Alfonso Lopez, who is not so amenable to cooperation with the U. S. as is President Dr. Eduardo Santos (who may not succeed himself), and in the background hovers the anti-U. S. Conservative Party Leader, Publisher Laureano Gomez...
...begin with, it is absolutely necessary to teach a lot of theory. Sociology is complex; it cannot be boiled down to a few hypotheses; it cannot be simplified. Harvard does not intend to train its students to go into social work as a vocation, but to give them a background which can be used in teaching, politics, business, or any other occupation. Surely there is nothing more practical than this. The usual, supposition is that theory is entirely impractical, and herein lies the flaw in the anti-theory argument. The guts of physics are the Newtonian principles, and yet nothing...
Generally speaking the History courses are considered better than the Literature courses. The charge most often leveled against all courses is that they fail to relate the facts to the cultural and economic background of the time. Thus History 32, an indispensable and brilliant course for a History major, is considered too factual with the emphasis on events rather than currents, and English 21 is unsatisfactory because it fails to emphasize social point of view...