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...continuing the drive for an athletic endowment. President Conant thinks that there exists a very great need for scholarships. Many other people think that there exists a very great need for an athletic endowment. By failing to make any mention of the latter need in his report, the document which will form a chief weapon for Harvard solicitors in the next twelve months, President Conant has by implication denied...
...Chiang Kai-shek when Chiang Kai-shek put a price of $250,000 on his head. Evenings, perched on a stool inside Mao's solid-stone hut, Snow slowly took down Mao's patiently dictated autobiography. Incorporated into Red Star Over China, it makes a valuable document in its own right. When Chiang Kai-shek broke with the Communists in 1927, Mao organized the Soviet in Hunan Province. Despite the internal feuds and contradictory policies of the Comintern, the Hunan Soviet lasted from 1930 to 1934, and with only 40,000 men stood off four attacks by Chiang...
Following Secretary Hull's dignified official belittlement of that measure last fortnight, Mr. Stimson wrote a letter to the New York Times. In a masterly 4,000-word document, Statesman Stimson tore the Resolution to pieces as a device that would not only dangerously divide U. S. sentiment if there were a war but also would defeat its own purposes by so hobbling U. S. diplomacy that situations like the Panay bombing would be far more likely to lead to war than they are at present, Mr. Stimson's conclusion: "No more effective engine for the disruption...
...Washington, New York's voluble Senator Royal S. Copeland had been sitting for days as chairman of the Senate Joint Maritime Committee considering last month's Maritime Commission report. That 17-page document by Joseph Patrick Kennedy bluntly declared: "Labor conditions in the American Merchant Marine are deplorable. . . . The employer, for his part, has fostered long hours, low wages and cramped quarters. The employe, meanwhile, has abused his employment in a manner that would not be tolerated in any other industry...
Planners. Credit for this ultra-modern document under Chairman Kennedy's signature goes to spade worker Robert Emerson Lees, onetime WPA Airport & Airways assistant director who joined the Maritime Commission eleven months ago, and to Aeronautical Adviser Grover Cleveland Loening, under whose direct supervision the report was drawn up. Adviser Loening, 49, appointed to the Commission six months ago, is a rich, dapper socialite, honest and unafraid of officialdom. A life-long aviation enthusiast, and manufacturer of the world's first successful amphibian, he said two years ago in his book Our Wings Grow Faster: "The handwriting...