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...dust of Capt. James Lawrence beneath his self-written epitaph: "Don't Give Up the Ship." Dead with him is the naval tradition of wooden ships and iron men, of boarding parties and the cutlass: the soul of the new navy is in intricate organization, in armorplate, in complex fire-control mechanisms and in 16-inch guns...
...complex controls of this dynamite-loaded machine is round-faced, 42-year-old Victor Emanuel. president of both ATCO and Aviation Corp. at around $50,000 a year. A flier in the U. S. Naval Air Service until 1918, Cornell-man Emanuel took over his father's utility business, made it into National Electric Power Co. in 1923, spread it farther & wider through the Middle West, sold out to Insull in 1926. In 1929 he returned to the power business by buying into the Byllesby system's Standard Power & Light. An associate in this foray was famed International...
Obviously Mr. Wolff's "poor little me" complex is nothing more than a pose, and yet in a way he is foolhardy to bring such a suit. It will be well-night impossible for him to disprove the fact that mass reviews, and the dispensing of canned knowledge have involved unethical practices and have had a harmful effect upon Harvard education. If they have not been harmful, if they do not reflect upon the integrity of a Harvard degree, then Harvard is not the institution three hundred-odd graduating classes have thought...
...family name has a lot to live up to." But Lawyer Taft, Yale '10, put the spoons to work. Uncle Charles had a chunk of Cincinnati's Street Railway System, wanted the complicated setup reorganized. Specializing in dry, dull, technical cases, Bob Taft worked on this complex chore off-&-on for eleven years, finished straightening it out in 1925. In this job, as in many another since, he displayed his talent for figures, often amazing his uncle, Mathematician Louis More, dean of University of Cincinnati's Graduate School, brother of the late Princeton Intellectual Paul Elmer More...
...Spanish Jew, Biographer de Madariaga satisfies himself about the rest. Explained (for him) is Colón's mysterious caginess about his origins-only Nazi Germany is unhealthier for Jews than was Spain under the Inquisition. (De Madariaga's account of Spain's complex Jewish problem of that day is a model of lucidity.) This explains to de Madariaga the reason why Colón's sponsors were invariably converted Jews, who formed a sort of braintrust for Ferdinand and Isabel...