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...year Argentina has been flooded with forged 100-peso notes and by last week exasperated Government officials had decided there was only one way to stop it. Argentina will destroy her entire paper currency of 1,100,000,000 pesos ($286,000,000) and substitute new notes. This time the issue will be printed from steel-engraved plates instead of by the cheaper lithographic process, which big-time forgers found easy to duplicate...
...weekly "hops" provide for other needs, but punishment is sternly administered for such offenses as "making public display of affection with young lady at skating rink about 5:10 o'clock thereby causing unfavorable comment from visitors." However the purpose of West Point is to develop, not to destroy initiative, and that it is successful the capability of our regular army officers bears testimony...
Last week, in testimony before the House Naval Affairs Committee Rear Admiral Arthur B. Cook, Chief of the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics, conceded, as had Chief of Naval Operations William Leahy two weeks before, that planes could conceivably destroy a battleship. But he insisted that this outcome of an air v. sea battle was by no means a foregone conclusion. The Navy's air chief quoted the British Imperial Defense Committee's retort to the theory that battleships are outmoded-if the theory proves well founded, a government that builds no battleships will save money; if ill founded...
...proposal to aid parochial schools had raised a small but ominous cloud. Said fiery Professor George S. Counts of Columbia's Teachers College at a convention of the Progressive Education Association in Manhattan: "I think that is a very dangerous and vicious recommendation, an entering wedge to destroy the public-school system...
...resting, waiting, watching; perhaps she is to play the role of Phillip of Macedon who too watched and waited while his neighbors exhausted themselves with incessant warfare. Like Phillip she may be waiting for one last destructive war, waiting for the moment to swoop down from the north, destroy her foolish, petty, squabbling neighbors, and build a new civilization on the ruins...