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...care of the bodies of my children, and consider that the immortal part is of infinitely more importance. . . O that we could inspire the rising generation around us with a scnse of the importance and worth of time, and the certainty that every action of every day helps to fix a character for eternity." It is this inherited spirit of the noble dignity of man that characterizes the entire life of C.N.G...
...court-martial instead, flying officers who agree with him have kept their opinion to themselves. The Air Corps, controlled by groundling officers of the General Staff, rocked along as a branch of the Army, and in 1940's emergency it found itself in the Army's fix: a long way from M-Day trim. But many a flying man could see, close ahead, the day when Billy Mitchell's demand for separate existence would be outmoded. For the inevitable result of the growing strength and tactical importance of military aviation was that soon it would have...
When sage Bernard Mannes Baruch laid down the sceptre of economic power at the end of World War I, he gave the U. S. some shocking advice: that if it ever wanted to go to war again, it should fix a ceiling on all prices by fiat as soon as they threatened to go up. Mr. Baruch repeated this advice so often in the ensuing 23 years that many a businessman grew to think a war economy and price-fixing are inseparable. Already such businessmen see the corpulent outlines of price-fixing in the figure of New Dealer Leon Henderson...
ROME--Germany has assumed control over the entire production and distribution of Rumanian oil and will fix the quotas for such nations as Greece and Turkey, the newspaper of Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Clano said today. The paper said the Nazi military activities in Rumania were necessitated to provide defense of Axis interests in the face of British imperialism...
...first task of the conscientious objector is to fix in his own mind what his conscience will permit him to do. Then he must inform himself exactly as to the type of work involved in the various jobs that will be thrust at him, so that he will not blunder into something that violates his convictions. Having done this, he is prepared to throw his full weight against the war system...